James Cross
Principal Software Engineer at Marks and Spencer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Cross is a Principal Software Engineer based in London with about a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering full‑stack systems for finance and retail, currently driving architecture and delivery at Marks & Spencer. He has a track record of incubating and scaling fintech and innovation projects—leading technical builds at Deutsche Bank’s Breaking Wave and earlier work on blockchain and AR at Thomson Reuters/Refinitiv. A lifelong coder with an MComp (First Class) from University of Bath, James balances user-centered product collaboration with a strong emphasis on maintainable, scalable codebases that future teams can evolve. He thrives at the intersection of product, design and engineering, and brings an engineer’s curiosity to side projects that explore new tech possibilities.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MComp Computer Science, MComp Computer Science at University of BathInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Dartford Grammar School
French
Github Skills (66)
cli10
angular10
typescript10
angular-cli10
javascript9
blockchain9
ethereum9
iframe9
electron9
editor8
p2p8
visual-studio8
editors8
visual-studio-code8
startpage8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jmc265/jeeb-uk
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 232 pushes in 3 months
jmc265/personal-cloud
May 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 116 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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