James Groom
Software Engineer at TASEmulators
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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RockstarJames Groom is a pragmatic software engineer based in Sydney with 10 years' experience building mobile applications, particularly Android. He is a Kotlin enthusiast who also ships C# when needed, and has contributed to the popular open-source StreetComplete Android app—refactoring time handling to kotlinx-datetime and improving execution and testability across the codebase. Comfortable across UI and data layers, he focuses on pragmatic code cleanups and migrations that reduce technical debt and improve runtime behavior. Known for a casual, hands-on style ("living la vida libre"), he brings steady craftsmanship and a willingness to tackle cross-cutting improvements in mature projects.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
274reputation
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Github Skills (16)
kotlin10
datetime10
datetimes10
android10
java9
openstreetmap9
javas9
testing7
mappings7
generics6
collections6
imagemagick6
covariance6
difference6
image-processing6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
streetcomplete/StreetComplete
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:11 reviews, 8 commits, 1 PR in 11 days
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the Android application, focusing on code improvements and feature enhancements. They refactored code to use typealiases for Java time classes, implemented migration to kotlinx-datetime for date and time handling, and performed various code cleanups for execution time improvement. Their work touched multiple areas of the application, including data handling, user interface components, and testing.
androidmappingosmsurveyeditor
CirculyrClub/ClubCirculyrStyleGuide
Apr 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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