Summary
James Goodwin is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and scaling mobile and platform engineering teams for products used by millions. He has led a 100-engineer platform org at HSBC, driving CI/CD, internal developer platforms, and generative AI prototyping to improve developer productivity and code quality. James has hands-on mobile roots—launching major Android apps (including a 3M+ download Rightmove app) and payment SDKs that became Google Pay and Apple Pay launch partners—while also operating across cloud, backend and SRE disciplines. He combines practical engineering (Kotlin, Swift, Java, AWS, GitHub) with strong people leadership, mentoring multiple principals and growing senior engineering capability. Based in London, he thrives on challenging the status quo and designing golden paths that make complex systems easy to adopt. A pragmatic tinkerer, he’s notable for bringing production-grade automation and AI-assisted tooling into large, distributed teams.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computing, BSc, Computing at University of Roehampton