James Hotblack
Shopify Developer at Digital Velocity Limited
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Hotblack is a Shopify developer with eight years’ experience building high-performance, merchant-focused themes and front-end features. At Safe As Milk he helped evolve Venue into a top-selling Shopify Theme used by brands like Velcro and Twinings USA, migrating code from jQuery to native JavaScript and web components to improve modularity and speed. He combines a Makers Academy grounding in TDD and agile practices with an Economics degree from the University of Surrey, giving him a pragmatic, metrics-aware approach to UX and conversion-focused development. Known for shipping plugin-free, responsive experiences—carousels, countdowns, dynamic product labels and video integrations—he also documents reusable components with JSDoc to make future maintenance easier. Based in Brighton, James now continues to scale e-commerce platforms while prioritising accessibility, performance and clear developer ergonomics.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Full-time 12-week web development course Ruby Javascript Python, Full-time 12-week web development course Ruby Javascript Python at MakersBachelor of Science - BS Economics, Bachelor of Science - BS Economics at University of Surrey
Github Skills (15)
twitter8
twilio8
explore8
pygame8
command-line7
css6
javascript6
instagram6
fmi6
react6
python5
buster4
ifttt3
ajax3
management2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hotblack86/CV
Nov 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:20 pushes in 2 years 10 months
AlinaGoaga/AJAX-AceBook
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Template for the AceBook project
Contributions:20 PRs, 13 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
template
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