James Ireland
Solutions Architect at Simmons & Simmons
Greater Reading Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Ireland is a Solutions Architect with over 25 years of hands-on experience delivering large-scale, secure and resilient enterprise systems, currently advising Simmons & Simmons after recent roles at DEFRA and Transport for London. He combines deep technical ownership—from low-level application architecture to strategic cloud platform design—with proven delivery of multi-million pound programmes across public-facing, mission-critical services. Comfortable bridging stakeholders and delivery teams, he has repeatedly translated complex regulatory and operational requirements into auditable, compliant solutions. Unusually for an architect at this scale, he is also a PhD student at the University of Canberra, reflecting an ongoing commitment to research-informed practice. Based in the Greater Reading area, he brings a pragmatic balance of developer mindset and long-term architectural oversight.
8 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Studies Computer Science, Computer Studies Computer Science at Solent UniversityGithub contributions (5)
James-Ireland/James-Ireland.github.io
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:120 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
robodave94/ur10DrawingSocial
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 3 pushes in 3 months
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