James Mcguigan
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolJames Mcguigan is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with two decades of experience driving organisational and technical transformations across FinTech, comparison marketplaces, and consultancy. He combines hands-on delivery as a former Technical Lead at MoneySuperMarket with strategic GTM and operational rigour from roles such as Global Head of Operations at Nomad and Agile Coach in Hong Kong. Expert in agile coaching, Kanban/Scrum and lean practices, he repeatedly speeds time-to-market while raising quality and embedding product-focused, cross‑border teams. He has a track record of delivering regulated, revenue-critical systems (insurance verticals, crypto trading platforms) and accessibility solutions that continue to benefit visually impaired users. Known for putting people first, he shapes cultures of ownership and measurable outcome delivery rather than process for its own sake. James holds a BSc and an MSc (by research) in Software Engineering from Durham University and now leads technology at travelbox from Hong Kong.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc., Software Engineering, MSc., Software Engineering at Durham University
French
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Github Skills (14)
webservice6
git6
algorithms6
java6
jax-rs6
javascript6
etag6
webscraping6
cxf6
forloop6
aem6
guava6
neo4j5
visualization4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
modernmaster/intellego
Nov 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:22 PRs, 25 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years 2 months
nodejsalexa
modernmaster/forecaster
Apr 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:26 reviews, 69 PRs, 86 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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