James Crisp
Co-Founder & CTO at RiskAssess
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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SeniorJames Crisp is a seasoned software leader and Co-Founder & CTO with 19 years of experience building business applications, frameworks, and lean architectures that delight users. A University Medalist in Computer Science, he began shipping commercial software before finishing high school and has spent the last 16+ years designing systems, hiring and leading teams, and consulting on architecture and process. He combines hands-on engineering (Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, C#, .NET) with product management and agile coaching, favoring XP practices, automated testing and deployment, and small cross-functional teams. As co-organiser of Sydney ALT.NET and long-time member of the local Ruby on Rails community, he’s an active presenter who brings developer-first pragmatism to leadership. At RiskAssess he translates domain knowledge into practical, testable features while evolving architectures that prioritize value per layer. He’s known for pairing deep technical craft with close stakeholder collaboration to turn complex business needs into maintainable, production-ready software.
19 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (31)
refactoring10
application-server9
ruby9
relic9
mvc9
rails9
html9
activerecord8
ruby-on-rails8
rspec8
appserver8
nodejs8
expressjs7
double7
agent7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jcrisp/mephisto_contact_form
Mar 2007 - Dec 2008
Contributions:20 commits in 1 year 9 months
jcrisp/dotfiles
Sep 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes in 4 years 8 months
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