James Keys
VP Of Engineering at Soji AI
Phuket Province, Thailand
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Top SchoolJames Keys is a VP of Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and leading teams across Southeast Asia, now based in Phuket. He combines strong Python, Node.js and Ruby on Rails expertise with production experience in PostgreSQL, APIs and SDLC best practices, and has repeatedly delivered cloud-native backend platforms and dashboards. A pragmatic agile leader, he progressed from senior developer roles to engineering management at Saleswhale and 6sense before taking on executive engineering responsibilities at Soji AI. He contributes to open-source Python/Django projects—improving security, performance and cross-database reliability in the pybbm forum—demonstrating attention to detail in legacy codebases. His Physics degree underpins a statistical, analytical approach to problem solving, a skill sharpened earlier in a successful professional poker career where disciplined risk management and game theory were essential. Colleagues describe him as a technically curious manager who balances shipping reliable systems with coaching engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Physics at Durham University
English, Thai
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Github Skills (11)
debug10
python10
django10
testing10
databases9
database9
forum9
security9
database-api9
permission9
mysql7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hovel/pybbm
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
Django forum solution. Tested, documented, shipped with example project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 17 PRs, 24 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Django-based pybbm forum solution. They addressed issues in the avatar template, fixed security vulnerabilities in post quoting, and corrected permissions related to hidden content. Furthermore, they optimized the application by removing unnecessary code and improving performance. The user also made adjustments to database interaction and tests to resolve MySQL-specific time resolution issues.
discoursepythondjangodocumentedforum
skolsuper/pybbm_private_messages
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:43 commits, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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