James Eastham
Senior Developer Advocate
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Eastham is a Senior Developer Advocate with seven years of hands-on experience building serverless systems and championing messaging and asynchronous architectures. He combines a practical polyglot background—particularly .NET and Rust—with a history of cloud infrastructure and consultancy roles at AWS and Datadog, translating complex technical concepts into deployable solutions and developer-facing content. James has led implementation projects across OCR, data integration, and BI, turning messy data into actionable workflows and dashboards that deliver business value. He is an experienced public speaker and content creator who thrives on presenting to large audiences and driving developer adoption. Avidly interested in serverless messaging, he pairs deep implementation experience with a knack for making distributed systems approachable. His international sabbaticals and client-facing roles have sharpened his communication and cross-cultural collaboration skills, making him effective both as an individual contributor and team leader.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (145)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/serverless-dotnet-demo
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:16 reviews, 17 commits, 16 PRs in 10 months
jeastham1993/PlantBasedPizza
Dec 2021 - May 2022
PlantBasedPizza - A Pizza restaurant for playing around with architecture patterns.
Contributions:18 commits, 22 PRs, 656 pushes in 5 months
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