James Long
Director Of Engineering at Netcraft
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Long is a Director of Engineering for Security & Compliance at Netcraft with 14 years of experience blending hands-on incident leadership and long-term risk strategy. He leads teams that detect and mitigate phishing, malware and fraud, while driving GDPR and SOC 2 compliance across the organisation. Comfortable toggling between live incident response and multi-year planning, he empowers engineers with trust, autonomy and resources to innovate. His background spans technical roles and business development within Netcraft plus a decade running his own company, giving him a rare mix of product, commercial and security resilience insight. Based in London, he holds a BEng in Computer Science from Imperial College and is known for turning regulatory complexity into practical, auditable engineering outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Malmesbury Secondary SchoolBachelors of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science, Bachelors of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science at Imperial College LondonMalmesbury Sixth Form
Github Skills (51)
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
irc-protocol9
browser-extension9
sasl9
multimodal9
irc-server9
weechat9
safari-extension9
computer-vision9
irc8
reader8
textual8
ai8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ac3xx/Lyricalizer
Dec 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
ac3xx/beanwalker
Oct 2018 - Jul 2021
Simple interactive beanstalkd status monitor and control
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
monitor-statusbeanstalkdmonitorstatus
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