James Kirkby
Staff Frontend Engineer at Raylo
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kirkby is a Staff Frontend Engineer based in London with a decade of professional experience and eight years focused on front-end development. He specializes in HTML, CSS (SASS/LESS), and JavaScript with deep React and Node.js knowledge, and has practical experience across PHP, Shopify, and WordPress while keeping performance optimization front and center. Currently shaping user-facing systems at Raylo and volunteering as a tech lead for League Leaders®, he blends hands-on coding with mentorship and product-minded delivery. His academic background in Information Systems with Business Management complements a pragmatic approach to building maintainable, high-performance interfaces for both startups and established platforms.
10 years of coding experience
IT Practitioners (Software Development), IT Practitioners (Software Development) at York CollegeTadcaster Grammar SchoolInformation Systems with Business Management, Computer Science, Business Management, Marketing, 2:1, Information Systems with Business Management, Computer Science, Business Management, Marketing, 2:1 at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Github Skills (51)
prismic9
gatsby-plugin8
lambda8
e-mail7
typesense7
selectbox7
serverless7
full-text-search6
aws-lambda6
textinput6
datastore6
fuzzy-search6
algolia6
whatsapp5
elasticsearch5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jameskirkby/serverless-contact-form
Nov 2016 - May 2018
Email contact form using the Serverless framework on AWS Lambda
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
aws-lambdae-maillambdaserverless-frameworkserverless
jameskirkby/serverless-dynamodb-triggers
Oct 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
serverlesslambda
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