James Highfield
Senior Developer at Shopify
Newbury, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Highfield is a Senior Developer based in Newbury, UK, with nine years of experience building robust web and desktop applications across consultancy and product environments. He has led front-end architecture and modular component design for complex engineering products at Hexagon/Romax and now drives development at Shopify, blending TypeScript, React, and Electron expertise with testing and design tooling like Storybook and Figma. James has a strong background delivering mission-critical government systems and engineering visualisations, including three.js-based 3D model viewers and PWAs focused on performance and offline use. Comfortable mentoring teams and introducing modern workflows, he pairs hands-on coding with pragmatic architecture and CI/CD discipline. An unusual strength is translating heavy engineering simulation needs into polished, user-focused UIs that scale from prototype to production.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at University of NottinghamSandbach School
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Github Skills (48)
webgl10
javascript10
design-tokens10
augmented-reality10
shopify10
canvas10
virtual-reality10
vscode-extension10
figma-plugin10
component-library10
svg10
3d10
react10
ui-components9
ionic9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
highfieldjames/cordova-plugin-firebase-realtime-database
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 5 days
google-firebasecordovafirebaseandroidcordova-plugin
Shopify/polaris-react-archive
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Shopify's Polaris Design System - React implementation (Deprecated)
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 commits, 5 PRs in 7 days
reactshopifyshopify-polaristypescriptdesign-system
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