James Holgate
Senior Software Engineer II at Hazelcast
Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Holgate is a Senior Software Engineer and tech leader with a decade of hands-on experience building high-performance gaming and e-commerce systems in Java and Node.js, and six years of engineering management experience. As founding CTO of Voldex Games he helped scale a UGC gaming portfolio to 14M monthly users, 2B plays and raised over $20M from top VCs, while personally growing engineering teams to 50+ and later leading departmental orgs of 25+. Currently a Tech Lead at Hazelcast, he blends rapid, pragmatic problem-solving with deep technical ownership across core platform engineering. James is equally comfortable writing core systems, hiring and mentoring engineers, and keeping distributed teams unblocked under tight deadlines. He’s known for moving extremely quickly to deliver robust solutions, and for translating solo-engineer hustle from his early freelance and indie game-server days into repeatable, scalable processes. Based in Gloucester, UK, he combines startup grit with production-grade engineering discipline.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Gloucestershire College
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Github Skills (10)
minecraft10
bukkit10
spigot10
plugin10
bind10
rapid9
player9
java8
plug6
skyblock6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
serversigns/ServerSigns
Mar 2016 - Aug 2020
ServerSigns (SVS) provides the ability to bind player-dispatched and server-disptached commands, messages and actions to signs and every other block in Minecraft.
Contributions:12 commits, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
minecraftbindabilitysignsbukkit
Exloki/helper
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
minecraftboilerplateboilerplate-codebukkit-pluginsbukkit-plugin
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