James Ladd
CEO Founder Entrepreneur Doer at Appeggio.com
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJames Ladd is a serial entrepreneur and engineering leader with 15 years of experience building product-focused teams and shipping cross-platform applications. As founder and CEO of Appeggio he enables non-technical users to create complex business apps that run on web and mobile, and previously co-founded MyWave as CTO to pioneer personalised mobile social-cloud experiences. Hands-on with OO design, Agile practices and architecture, he has deep language fluency across Java, Ruby and Smalltalk—he even authored Redline Smalltalk and contributed a Smalltalk grammar to the widely used ANTLR v4 grammars repo. His background spans startup founding, engineering leadership at Airwallex, and delivery stewardship in large enterprise environments, giving him a rare blend of product vision and execution discipline. Based in Melbourne, he pairs practical engineering do-ness with a taste for elegant patterns and language tooling that few executives still write themselves.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (10)
grammar10
smalltalk10
grammars10
parser10
antlr10
constructor6
garbage-collection6
serialization6
accessor6
java6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
antlr/grammars-v4
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
Grammars written for ANTLR v4; expectation that the grammars are free of actions.
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the development of a Smalltalk grammar for ANTLR v4. Their work involved the initial creation of the grammar file, followed by iterative modifications to address parsing errors and incorporate new features. They also made several adjustments to the grammar's structure, including renaming the grammar and modifying its rules to correctly parse Smalltalk code. The user appears to be focused on grammar development and testing within the ANTLR framework.
grammarparser-generatorabstract-syntax-treeexpectationgrammars
jamesladd/stc
Dec 2013 - Jan 2018
Contributions:153 commits, 54 PRs, 213 pushes in 4 years 1 month
typescriptstc
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