James Davies
Platform Engineer
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Davies is a Platform Engineer with eight years of focused platform and infrastructure experience and a broader 10-year software engineering background, now working at Genius Sports after leading platform efforts at MVF. He specialises in building and maintaining resilient development and production platforms that improve developer experience, reliability and security, with hands-on experience across infrastructure, site reliability and platform leadership. Comfortable communicating across technical and business stakeholders, he repeatedly bridges strategy and execution to deliver pragmatic solutions for complex systems. James's career progression from developer to principal engineer and platform lead highlights a knack for rapidly adopting new technologies and driving cross-team improvements. Based in the UK and holding an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Bristol, he brings a mix of deep technical craft and practical delivery focus that consistently accelerates projects.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Tasker Milward V.C. SchoolMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at University of Bristol
Spanish, English
Github Skills (41)
emacs-lsp9
melpa9
spacemacs9
emacs9
vim9
psql7
highlighting7
syntax-highlighting6
python6
database5
backend5
nodejs5
pattern5
javascript4
experiences4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jg-made/jg-made-system
May 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:294 commits, 178 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
jg-made/spacemacs
Dec 2019 - May 2020
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 7 branches in 5 months
vimspacemacsemacsemacs-lspcommunity-driven
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