James Lin
Senior Python Developer at James Lin Software Development
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJames Lin is a Senior Python Developer in Auckland with 11 years of professional experience building scalable web applications and internal platforms. He’s delivered production systems across Django, React, AWS and CI/CD—owning initiatives like automated billing for 14+ products, improved service usage polling, internal PyPI and Docker repositories, and a Docker-based provisioning project. Comfortable as a hands-on developer and mentor, he reviews architecture and coaches junior engineers while running his own cloud-hosted projects using Ansible, Jenkins and Gunicorn. His background spans high-traffic consumer platforms, shared services (payments, carts, OAuth2) and search integrations, reflecting a pragmatic full-stack and DevOps mindset. Notably, he pairs product impact with engineering hygiene—introducing automated vulnerability scans and test pipelines to raise deployment quality across teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bursary, Bursary at Awatapu CollegeBachelor, Computer Science & Information System, Bachelor, Computer Science & Information System at Massey University
English, Chinese, Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
25,766reputation
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258answers
429questions
rest
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ubuntu
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migration
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python
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django
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django-rest-framework
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Github Skills (200)
ubuntu10
api10
openid-connect10
python10
django10
rest10
authentication10
pip10
aws-apigateway10
lambda10
django-admin10
crud10
aws-lambda10
two-factor-authentication10
serverless-framework10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
variable/cv
Dec 2019 - Jul 2026
Contributions:3 PRs, 45 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 7 months
variable/django-fido
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Django application for FIDO protocol U2F
Contributions:70 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 1 month
u2f-protocolpythondjangofidodjango-application
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