James Kyburz
Principal Software Engineer at G-P
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Kyburz is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building distributed systems and serverless-first platforms, currently shaping cloud-native architecture at G-P/Globalization Partners from Belfast. He specializes in Node.js, AWS Serverless and resilient distributed systems, having led platform engineering engagements across industries including construction equipment, real estate tech, and e-commerce. James combines hands-on backend work—contributing notable improvements to community projects like node-soap and Fastify benchmarks—with pragmatic platform leadership, shipping production-grade serverless systems and CI-driven performance tooling. His career traces back to low-level systems and enterprise languages, giving him a rare comfort across cloud-native Node stacks and legacy systems alike. Known for pragmatic refactors and making testing infrastructure more robust (e.g., Electron support in zuul), he balances developer ergonomics with operational reliability.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Software engineer, Software engineer at Mid Kent College
English, Swedish, French, German, Irish
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Github Skills (34)
fastify10
benchmark10
javascript10
electron10
testing10
test-framework10
benchmarking10
soap10
security10
browser-testing10
xml10
web-framework10
test-integration10
nodejs10
integration-testing10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
fastify/benchmarks
Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
Fast and low overhead web framework fastify benchmarks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 31 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:James contributed to benchmarking the Fastify web framework. Their commits added and modified server-base benchmarks, integrating it with various server implementations. They updated the project's dependencies, specifically node versions, and fixed standard code issues. The user also updated the project's GitHub Actions workflow to run benchmarks.
overheadfastestframeworkfastifybenchmarks
defunctzombie/zuul
Nov 2014 - Jul 2016
[UNMAINTAINED] multi-framework javascript browser testing
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to enhancing the project's browser testing capabilities, specifically integrating the Electron framework. Their work included creating new modules and modifying existing ones to support Electron, adding a new command-line flag, and adapting the testing infrastructure. They also addressed bugs and API changes related to Electron, ensuring the framework's compatibility with the project's testing workflow.
browserjsdomtestingjavascriptjavascript-framework
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