James Hopper
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Fonoa
Greater Nottingham United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJames Hopper is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in Greater Nottingham with 13 years of experience building robust, large-scale systems and leading engineering teams through iterative delivery. He has progressed from hands-on developer roles to technical leadership and architecture positions at companies like UNiDAYS and Fonoa, consistently shipping high-quality software under tight deadlines. James combines full-stack fluency with backend and database expertise—evidenced by contributions to the Marten .NET document DB where he improved testing, schema configuration, and patching APIs. He excels at stabilizing brittle systems and introducing practical enhancements such as metadata indexing and soft deletes, making complex data workflows more reliable. Known for balancing delivery velocity with long-term maintainability, he brings pragmatic engineering judgment and a track record of improving developer-facing infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
schema-design10
postgresql10
csharp10
schema10
database-design10
db-schema10
dotnet-core10
database-schema10
testing9
event-sourcing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JasperFx/marten
Jul 2016 - Aug 2017
.NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:32 commits, 15 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the testing and enhancement of the Marten project, a .NET-based transactional document database built on PostgreSQL. Their work involved fixing brittle tests and ensuring the proper functioning of the patching API, including adding functionality like duplicate and delete operations. Furthermore, the user was involved in improving the database schema configuration, adding indexes for metadata, and configuring the use of soft deletes.
dotnetmartenevent-sourcingtransactionalsql
MyUNiDAYS/unidays-connect
Apr 2020 - Jan 2022
Samples and examples of UNiDAYS Connect integrations
Contributions:1 review, 25 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 9 months
integrations
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