James Drew
Owner at Drew Labs
Limerick, Munster, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Drew is an owner and seasoned software engineer with 11 years' experience building robotics and full-stack systems from Ireland, blending hands-on development with product and architecture work across startups and enterprise teams. He runs Drew Aerospace and Drew Labs while teaching database design and data visualisation to MEng students, linking academic research (PhD in Digitalisation of Manufacturing) with practical robotics and software delivery. His background spans Java and JavaScript full-stack engineering, embedded systems, and cloud-native architectures, with a history of leading delivery in multidisciplinary Scrum teams. James often freelances and consults, applying a mix of systems thinking and pragmatic engineering to solve real-world manufacturing and automation problems. Beyond code, he brings interdisciplinary training in politics, philosophy and economics, which informs his clear communication and systems-level perspective. Colleagues describe him as someone who prefers talking about code, robots or the weather—often in that order.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Honours) Politics Philosophy and Economics Political Economy, BA (Honours) Politics Philosophy and Economics Political Economy at The Open UniversitySpecialist Diploma in Embedded Systems Engineering Computer Science, Specialist Diploma in Embedded Systems Engineering Computer Science at University of LimerickComputer Science, Computer Science at Harvard UniversityGovernment and Social Policy Political Science and Government, Government and Social Policy Political Science and Government at University College CorkDoctor of Philosophy - PhD (Student) Digitalisation of Manufacturing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Student) Digitalisation of Manufacturing at Limerick Institute of Technology
English, Irish, French, Japanese
Github Skills (160)
apps-script10
parser10
express-jwt10
angular-material10
google-workspace10
upwork-api10
drive10
req10
google-apps-script10
google-docs10
javascript9
browser9
sdk-nodejs9
jsonwebtoken9
jwt9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jdrew1303/sqltraverse
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 4 months
astsqlcodeschool
jdrew1303/ros_duckie
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
An educational self driving car with ROS based on the Duckiebot
Contributions:114 commits, 14 PRs, 106 pushes in 10 months
roboticsself-drivingrosdrivingcar
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