James Jackson
Partner at ExaDev
Penmaenmawr, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Jackson is a Partner and seasoned front-end engineer with 11 years building polished, component-driven web applications using React, Vue, Typescript and modern front-end tooling. He combines hands-on delivery—leading front-end teams at ExaDev, adpeak.ai and VibePay—with deep academic rigor from a PhD in Computer Science at Bangor University, bringing a researcher's attention to performance, maintainability and UX. Comfortable across web and mobile stacks (PHP, SCSS, HTML5, Java and iOS experience), he frequently moves between senior engineering and technical leadership roles. Based in Penmaenmawr, Wales, James is known for translating complex requirements into intuitive interfaces and for blending teaching and mentoring experience from his university years into pragmatic team coaching. An independent thinker with both startup and consultancy track records, he thrives on turning prototype ideas into production-grade products.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Bangor UniversityStonyhurst College
Github Skills (18)
plugin8
wordpress-plugin8
nodejs7
wordpress7
traffic6
react6
php6
js5
jetpack5
llm4
security4
marketing4
ai4
genai3
crud2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jamesjacko/genii-builder
Apr 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 3 pushes, 2 tags in 4 years 3 months
jamesjacko/genii-renderer
Nov 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 7 months
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