James D
Principal Software Engineer at BPP
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames D is a Principal Software Engineer based in London with 13 years of experience building scalable web products, microservices and APIs using Node.js, GraphQL and REST. He blends hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership, having led technology teams and greenfield rebuilds from first hire to CTO and Head of Technology roles across fintech, edtech and consumer platforms. Skilled in relational and NoSQL databases, observability and cloud-native deployments, he focuses on developer experience improvements like shared libraries and ephemeral environments to accelerate delivery. Notable for translating business pivots into robust API-first architectures and integration frameworks, he has shipped features that automate identity verification and lender integrations. Outside the obvious stack expertise, he has a penchant for elegant problem-solving—hence “Array.prototype.reduce problems rather than solving them”—and a track record of improving onboarding and engagement metrics through backend-driven product changes.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Warwick SchoolComputer Science with a year in industry Computer Science, Computer Science with a year in industry Computer Science at University of Kent
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Github Skills (200)
javascript-client10
amazon-cognito10
http-client10
nes-emulator10
serverless10
picture-in-picture10
browser10
prerender10
pouchdb10
dynamodb10
cloud-services10
croppie10
html-email10
sst10
nodejs10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
someimportantcompany/yoem
Mar 2020 - May 2021
Unopinionated self-hosted oembed URL expansion
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 1 month
hostedunopinionatedexpansionoembed
someimportantcompany/koa-graceful-shutdown
Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
Ensure that during shutdown Koa returns correctly with a 503
Contributions:2 releases, 13 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 10 months
returnsshutdowngraceful-shutdownnodejskoa
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