James Harland
Head Of Technical at Comtecs Group
Tunbridge Wells, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Harland is a seasoned Head of Technical with over two decades of hands-on web and infrastructure experience, currently leading large-scale Magento, Shopify and custom CMS projects at Comtecs. He combines full-stack PHP development (Laravel, Magento) with deep Linux-based hosting and DevOps expertise (LAMP/LEMP, nginx, MySQL, Redis, OpenSearch) to deliver secure, high-performance eCommerce platforms. Comfortable moving between code, server architecture and client-facing IT support, he excels at practical solutions that balance innovation with maintainability. James also maintains long-running community projects—running the Micra Sports Club site since 2005—and experiments with Discord bots and other passion projects, showing a knack for shipping small, impactful tools outside work. Based in Tunbridge Wells, he brings institutional memory of the web’s evolution and a pragmatic leadership style that keeps teams focused on scalable, SEO-friendly outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Borden Grammar School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (80)
near-real-time10
home-assistant-integration10
monocle10
adobe10
magento10
garbage10
affiliates10
ecommerce10
php10
database9
near9
python9
balena9
raspberry9
raspberry-pi-zero9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CalamityJames/BetterCrewLink
Jun 2021 - Nov 2023
Contributions:14 releases, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
CalamityJames/train-departure-display
Jun 2023 - Mar 2024
A replica, near real-time, miniature UK railway station train departure sign based upon a Raspberry Pi Zero and 256x64 SPI OLED display
Contributions:2 reviews, 14 pushes, 20 branches in 8 months
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