Summary
James Eaton is a Senior Solutions Architect based in Harrogate with 12 years of experience designing and delivering resilient, cloud-native systems for high-throughput consumer and enterprise domains. Currently leading architecture at Sky Betting & Gaming, he has driven marquee projects like BuildABet and in-running horse racing, migrated legacy stacks to containerised Kubernetes platforms, and introduced multi-use GraphQL strategies to reduce backend duplication. He combines hands-on engineering, technical leadership and team building—previously founding and scaling dev teams and processes at a fintech startup while delivering ISO 27001-ready SaaS and on-prem products. Comfortable across Java, Spring, microservices and CI/CD practices, he has a track record of turning complex, regulated requirements into pragmatic, test-driven solutions that scale. An engineer who still codes in the trenches, he’s equally skilled at creating proofs-of-concept to de-risk new technologies and aligning stakeholders across product and delivery.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 Bsc Hons, Computer Science, 2:1 Bsc Hons, Computer Science at University of Liverpool