James Drummond
Senior Frontend Developer - React Redux Typescript (contract) At Virgin Universal Music Group at Virgin Music Group
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Drummond is a senior full-stack JavaScript developer with 11+ years of experience building high-throughput web applications for startups and enterprise clients in London. He specializes in React, Redux and TypeScript on the front end and Node.js, MongoDB and .NET/Postgres on the backend, and has shipped production systems that process billions of transactions and handle large-scale e-commerce traffic. As founder of Smoothbook (acquired 2023), he built a payments- and marketplace-integrated platform managing 120,000+ appointments and ~$100k/month without paid marketing. His background includes security-cleared finance work, integrations meeting SCA/two-factor requirements with Stripe, and hands-on experience with deployment and scaling on AWS and DigitalOcean. Equally comfortable mentoring teams and presenting to senior stakeholders, he combines pragmatic engineering with product-minded ownership.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Stackoverflow
125reputation
940reached
9answers
2questions
Github Skills (22)
chrome-extension9
plug9
firefox9
chrome9
blockchain8
ethereum8
brave8
metamask8
opera8
browser-extension8
browser7
dapp-developers7
html6
iframe6
react6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
desertedisland/studymelonclient
Mar 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:270 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 9 months
yellowmelon/studymelonclient
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:309 pushes, 7 branches in 4 months
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