James Dunkerley
Chief Technology Officer at Enso Analytics
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Dunkerley is a hands-on CTO and technical architect with 11 years of senior engineering leadership, now steering Enso Analytics’ technology and product direction. He blends deep data analytics and cloud expertise with practical systems design—having built serverless data science platforms, hybrid Kubernetes/Hadoop architectures, and secure large-scale data pipelines for government and financial clients. At Enso he progressed from libraries lead to VP of Engineering and CTO, shaping APIs, language features and UX-driven IDE work while contributing backend performance optimizations to the open-source Enso Analytics project. Technical strengths span Java, C#, Python, cloud (AWS/Azure), streaming systems and compiler/DSL work (ANTLR4), and he pairs this with regular user research and client-facing product shaping. A Cambridge mathematician, he is as comfortable implementing low-level performance tweaks as he is defining strategic architectural roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Solefield SchoolMA Mathematics, MA Mathematics at University of CambridgeTonbridge School
English
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Github Skills (30)
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winforms9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
enso-org/enso
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Enso Analytics is a self-service data prep and analysis platform designed for data teams.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1747 reviews, 123 commits, 369 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:James contributed to the Enso Analytics platform by modifying core data processing and utility functions. Their work focused on implementing performance optimizations, such as changing the distinct operation to use a Map data structure, and implementing new features. The user also contributed to the Time data structures and added string manipulation functionality.
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jdunkerley/AlteryxAddIns
Dec 2015 - Oct 2018
C# based Alteryx AddIns
Contributions:13 releases, 201 commits, 38 PRs in 2 years 10 months
csharpaddinsalteryx
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