James Kerry-barnard
Senior Software Engineer at Orchestrating Identity
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kerry-barnard is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building and maintaining greenfield and legacy production systems across media, fintech and e‑commerce domains. He has driven full lifecycle delivery for microservice-based streaming platforms at Sky and now focuses on identity orchestration, bringing strong incident triage skills honed during live support and production-facing roles. James pairs backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions improving PHP-FPM version handling in the popular Laravel Valet project—with client-facing collaboration to translate tricky requirements into pragmatic solutions. Comfortable with both JVM and service-oriented architectures, he has a track record of migrating legacy integrations, building data ingestion hubs and stabilising complex automation systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at University of Bristol
Github Skills (10)
homebrew10
php10
macos10
php-fpm10
laravel-mix9
laravel9
testing8
cli7
command-line7
command-line-interface7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/valet
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
A more enjoyable local development experience for Mac.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 8 PRs, 23 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on improving the functionality of PHP's FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) configuration within the Valet environment, a local development tool for macOS. Their contributions included refactoring and adding tests for PHP version management, particularly the `useVersion` command. They addressed bugs related to PHP version linking and implemented changes to ensure Valet correctly utilizes and switches between different PHP versions.
vagrantlocal-developmentphpmactrellis
jrbarnard/hookable
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 14 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 month
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