James Mccann
Founder at Volley
Gisborne, Gisborne, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Mccann is a founder and seasoned software leader with 13 years of engineering and technical leadership experience, currently building Volley to simplify secure Open Banking payments for New Zealanders. He previously led borrowing and payments engineering at Monzo and held technical lead roles at MessageBird and Consumer NZ, where he steered a rebuild of Powerswitch. A hands-on engineer comfortable across web and mobile stacks, James has contributed backend improvements to notable open-source projects like Loomio, demonstrating attention to pragmatic, production-facing fixes. Based in Gisborne, he combines product-minded startup experience with institutional banking tech know-how, and quietly blends customer-focused design with robust backend architecture. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering from Victoria University of Wellington and remains active in the developer community while launching his latest fintech venture.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Software Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (11)
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
actionmailer9
javascript9
activerecord8
coffeescript7
database-design7
db-schema7
schema7
database-schema7
schema-design7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
loomio/loomio
Aug 2012 - Dec 2012
Loomio is a collaborative decision making tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:182 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on back-end development tasks, specifically modifying the application's mailer configurations to adjust the reply-to address in invitation emails. They also integrated facilitator changes and corrected merge errors related to JavaScript files. Furthermore, they made database schema modifications and implemented features like the outcome column for proposals, including associated JavaScript for toggling the outcome statement.
decision-makingcollaborativedecision
jamesmccann/tessel-mpu6050
Apr 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:33 commits in 1 year 11 months
gyroscopetesselmpuaccelerometer
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