James Lawson
Founding Software Engineer at Zettafleet
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Lawson is a founding software engineer based in London with 13 years of experience building high-traffic front-end and full-stack web applications. An Imperial College MEng graduate and top-ranked competitive programmer in England on Kattis, he blends algorithmic rigor with practical product engineering. James has shipped large-scale features at Meta and WhatsApp, contributed to BBC's content systems serving thousands of requests per second, and now leads front-end work at an early-stage startup, Zettafleet. Comfortable across TypeScript, React, Node.js and cloud architectures, he pairs data-driven A/B experimentation with pragmatic engineering to improve user activation and performance. Notably, his background includes low-level audio and multithreaded C/C++ work, reflecting a rare mix of front-end polish and systems-level performance experience.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science at Imperial College LondonQueen Mary's Grammar School
Github Skills (111)
camelcase10
quickfix10
vimscript10
fuzzy10
snake-case10
ack10
todoist10
screeps10
fuzzy-logic10
swift10
hyphenation10
keybase10
finder10
tabline10
factor10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jameslawson/new-machine
Jun 2015 - Dec 2023
Contributions:175 pushes, 1 branch, 9 issues in 8 years 7 months
jameslawson/sandwich.vim
Aug 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:3 PRs, 24 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
vimvim-pluginquotesneovimbrackets
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