James Glendenning
Technical Lead at SMILE
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJames Glendenning is a Technical Lead based in Birmingham with nine years’ experience building high-traffic websites, widgets, and web applications, and over seven years delivering production digital products. He has progressed through developer to lead roles at SMILE, where he now shapes technical direction and delivery for clients ranging from hundreds to millions of monthly visitors. Comfortable across the full web stack, James combines pragmatic engineering with hands-on coding (and a wry PHP-mindedness hinted at in his GitHub bio). He excels at turning complex client requirements into reliable, performant solutions and mentoring teams through that process. Known for steady operational delivery, he brings a background in information technology and media studies that helps bridge technical and stakeholder communication.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mass Communication/Media Studies, Mass Communication/Media Studies at Great Barr Sixth FormInformation Technology, Information Technology at Great Barr
English
Github Skills (45)
alpha10
wordpress-plugin10
wordpress9
gutenberg-blocks8
seo8
staging7
trend7
dom7
api7
traffic6
php6
javascript6
plugin6
intranet5
lms5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wearesmile/content-flow
Jan 2018 - May 2022
A workflow for publishing in WordPress.
Contributions:240 commits in 4 years 4 months
publishingwordpressstagingwordpress-pluginworkflow
codedbyglenden/Super-Simple-Modals
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Super Simple Modals is a small Vanilla JavaScript library that does what it says on the tin. Allow you to create pop-up modals on your website in no time, with a tiny amount of code.
Contributions:1 release, 24 PRs, 68 pushes in 2 months
javascript-librarymodalpop-upcssjavascript
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.