James Furey
Full-Stack Backend Developer & Technical Lead at James Furey
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJames Furey is a Full-Stack Backend Developer and Technical Lead based in Sydney with over a decade of hands-on experience building interactive digital products and leading technical teams. He blends a strong design background with modern JavaScript and Node.js engineering to deliver clean, testable, and maintainable services across front-end and back-end stacks. His career spans agency and freelance roles for major brands—plus co-founding Wanted Digital—where he’s shipped experiential and CMS-driven solutions for clients like Samsung, Atlassian, Citibank and government institutions. A pragmatic problem-solver, James contributes to open-source tooling such as Laravel Valet, improving CLI workflows for local development. He’s equally fluent in creative disciplines—illustration, animation and prototyping—which helps him translate ambitious concepts into robust technical implementations. Known for thorough documentation, communication and an iterative “ask, build, refine” approach, he thrives on tackling atypical challenges.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Design, Design, Bachelor of Design, Design at University of New South Wales (COFA)
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Github Skills (17)
laravel-mix10
command-line-interface10
laravel10
php10
command-line10
cli10
configuration-management9
macos9
nginx7
cocoa-touch6
uibarbuttonitem6
scopes6
xamarin-ios6
uiimage6
ios6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/valet
Sep 2017 - Apr 2019
A more enjoyable local development experience for Mac.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 30 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the command-line interface (CLI) functionality of the Laravel Valet project. They added and modified commands related to fallback site paths and log file access, enhancing the user experience for local development. The user also adjusted command descriptions for clarity and refined the logic around default site paths within the server configuration. Their work included the introduction of features for tailing and managing log files, and incorporating changes based on community feedback.
vagrantlocal-developmentphpmactrellis
furey/mongodb-lens
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
🍃🔎 MongoDB Lens: Full Featured MCP Server for MongoDB Databases
Contributions:31 releases, 1 PR, 269 pushes in 24 days
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