James Lakin
Senior Application Developer
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Lakin is a Senior Application Developer with 12 years’ experience building reliable backend systems and full-stack tooling from Southampton, England. Now at Fujitsu, he progressed from Software Developer to senior roles while delivering production-grade applications and improving developer workflows. An active open-source contributor, he has worked on Gitea’s backend—implementing and hardening system-wide webhooks and event handling in a notable self-hosted Git platform. Comfortable across the stack, he combines practical Go expertise with a degree in Digital Technology Solutions and a habit of tinkering that surfaces in both enterprise projects and community code.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Technology Solutions, Information Technology, 1st, Digital Technology Solutions, Information Technology, 1st at BPP UniversityMaths, Physics, Comp., A-Levels, Maths, Physics, Comp., A-Levels at Peter Symonds College
Github Skills (7)
golang10
go10
webhooks10
git-server9
git9
cicd8
devops8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
go-gitea/gitea
Feb 2020 - Oct 2020
Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 12 commits, 19 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to back-end functionality, particularly webhooks and associated logic within the Gitea project. They implemented features related to system-wide webhooks, including creating, modifying, and deleting them. Their work also involved fixing bugs in webhook redirection paths and improving the handling of repository events during creation and deletion. The user collaborated on code modifications and improvements, showcasing proficiency in the project's Go codebase.
golangdevopsgiteahostedcup
jamesorlakin/cert-manager-cpanel-dns-webhook
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 23 commits in 6 months
uapicertdomainsdnsacme-dns
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