James Cryer
Lead Software Engineer at Aviva
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Cryer is a Lead Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building cloud-native, scalable systems across AWS, GCP and Heroku, currently leading Aviva Zero’s engineering squad. He combines hands-on full‑stack development—Node.js, Scala, Java, Ruby on Rails and modern front-end stacks—with pragmatic architecture and CI/CD/IaC practices, having driven Sophos’ migration to serverless-first pipelines and Terraform-managed infrastructure. A published author (Pro Grunt.js) and contributor to notable open-source projects like Resemble.js, he blends developer tooling, performance focus and test-driven delivery to ship reliable products at scale. He has a track record delivering consumer SaaS (Sophos Home), large public-facing platforms at the BBC, and mentoring teams to increase release velocity and operational resilience.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
1st Class BSc (Hons), Computer Science, 1st Class BSc (Hons), Computer Science at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
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Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
nodejs10
javascript10
image-comparison10
testing10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rsmbl/Resemble.js
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
Image analysis and comparison
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 73 PRs, 125 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James contributed significantly to the image analysis and comparison library, implementing and testing features for comparing images with bounding boxes and ignored areas. They added and refined tests using a testing framework, enhancing the library's functionality. The user also addressed merge conflicts, ensuring the codebase remained consistent.
image-analysispythonimagecomparisonimage-processing
HuddleEng/PhantomXHR
Mar 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:8 PRs, 12 pushes, 4 tags in 4 years 3 months
javascriptajaxmockingphantomjs
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