James Lees
Staff Engineer at Monzo Bank
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Lees is a Staff Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building and operating high-throughput platform and infrastructure systems, most recently scaling platform capabilities at Monzo. He progressed through hands-on roles at Pusher where he modernised provisioning with Terraform, re-architected webhook pipelines onto Kinesis/SQS, and built a TCP proxy in Go to provide transparent Redis redundancy—work that supported millions of messages per second. Comfortable across cloud-native tooling, distributed systems and operational automation, he brings practical systems-thinking from edge-to-cloud. James combines deep technical execution with platform leadership, driving reliability and scalability in fast-moving product environments. A BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering underpins a pragmatic approach to engineering problems and operational design.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BENG Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BENG Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Liverpool
Github Skills (146)
http-api10
redis-streams10
wercker10
guzzle10
php-library10
composer10
javascript10
redis-client10
api10
golang10
go10
pusher10
prototyping10
redis10
stripe10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
leesio/advent-of-code
Dec 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:54 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
welearnjs/helpersApp
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 days
reactcapturingeventsmaptwitter
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