Summary
James Corbould is a Solution Architect with 12+ years of hands-on experience designing enterprise integration and cloud-native solutions, primarily on Azure. He combines deep technical leadership in messaging, APIs and event-driven architectures (Service Bus, Event Grid, Kafka) with practical delivery experience building scalable platforms for finance and SaaS customers. At Datacom he has driven app modernisation, document migration of millions of records, network-isolated Azure infrastructure and cost-saving consolidations while also owning third-party relationships like Stripe. A lifelong tinkerer who started on a ZX Spectrum, he still enjoys building things—whether IoT projects or simple learning games for his sons—to explore new stacks and keep skills sharp. Colleagues know him as a collaborative, sustainable leader who prioritises trust, autonomy and high-quality, testable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Information Systems, MSc, Information Systems at University of Portsmouth
BSc (Hons), Archaeology, BSc (Hons), Archaeology at Bournemouth University