James Halsall
Senior Backend Engineer at NALA
Greater Liverpool Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Halsall is a Senior Backend Engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, cost-efficient systems using Go, Python and AWS, currently shaping backend architecture at NALA. He combines startup pragmatism with enterprise delivery, having led technical strategy and grown teams while remaining deeply involved in implementation across serverless, IoT edge devices, and deployment automation. Notable work includes stabilising and scaling a Lambda-based print-marketing platform into a resilient AWS-driven service with a fleet of Go-based Raspberry Pi clients handling IPP/CUPS and MQTT over AWS IoT. James excels at balancing technical debt, performance and business outcomes, often partnering directly with C-suite to align engineering with product goals. Based in the Greater Liverpool area, he brings a rare blend of infrastructure, hardware integration and product-focused engineering that turns prototypes into production-grade platforms.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Information Systems, BSc, Computer Information Systems at University of Liverpool
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Github Skills (200)
consumer-driven-contracts10
pdf-viewer10
symfony10
affiliates10
php10
packagist10
pipenv10
react-pdf10
monkey-patching10
serverless-plugin10
symfony-bundle10
ecommerce10
pact10
service-provider10
adobe10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jameshalsall/licenser
Oct 2013 - May 2016
Contributions:37 commits, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 7 months
headersphplicensesource-files
jameshalsall/symfony
Jul 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:58 pushes, 15 branches in 7 months
phpsymfony-bundleframeworkphp-frameworkphp-symfony
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