James Horrigan
Founder And Full Stack AI Engineer at XPLORATECH.AI
West Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Horrigan is a founder and CTO-level full stack AI engineer with 15+ years of engineering experience and a track record of delivering measurable business impact—cutting call volumes by 70%, saving £1.3M in hiring costs, and ingesting 300M products for large-scale search. He combines modern frontend stacks (Next.js, React, Tailwind) with AWS-hosted Python backends and scalable LLM/agentic architectures to build production-ready AI applications faster and more cost-effectively than traditional approaches. As founder of XPLORATECH.AI he runs AI audits, designs custom RAG pipelines and agentic systems, and even built internal admin tooling to streamline client onboarding and audit workflows. His background spans high-throughput data engineering, serverless microservices and real-time agent UIs, reflecting a rare mix of product sensitivity and low-level systems optimisation. Based in West Lancashire, he’s equally comfortable shipping enterprise-grade distributed data pipelines and rapid AI-driven automation for SMBs. Ask his AI digital twin anything at jameshorrigan.com—an example of his practical embrace of AI-first development.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
De La Salle High SchoolHND Computer Software Engineering, HND Computer Software Engineering at St Helens College & Knowsley Community CollegeProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JHorrigan/html-pizza
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
HTML5 Project
Contributions:48 PRs, 48 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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JHorrigan/css-cool-shoes
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
CSS Project
Contributions:29 PRs, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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