James Munro
Founding Engineer at Mindoo
Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Munro is a founding engineer and seasoned full‑stack developer with 13 years of experience building user-facing learning platforms, mobile apps, and games. He has led and grown engineering teams at DataCamp—moving from senior engineer to engineering manager—bringing pragmatic architecture choices, strong engineering practices, and an emphasis on developer coaching and AI-enabled tooling. His background spans React/React Native, TypeScript, Node.js and GraphQL, with earlier roots in iOS and game development that inform a product-focused, quality-driven approach. Now building at Mindoo after a brief senior engineering stint at HiringAgents.ai, he blends hands‑on coding with hiring and mentorship experience. Colleagues describe him as curious and consistently learning, able to translate game-era rapid release practices into robust EdTech delivery.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc by Research Computer Science, MSc by Research Computer Science at University of Lincoln
Github Skills (200)
fill10
testing10
persistent-data10
typescript-definitions10
react-native-module10
javascript10
react-native-web10
push-notifications10
yarnpkg10
reactotron10
debugging10
typescript10
react-native-component10
dts10
vscode10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jdmunro/react-native-spotlight-search
Jun 2016 - Jul 2022
A React Native module for iOS that provides Spotlight search functionality.
Contributions:10 releases, 2 reviews, 92 commits in 6 years 2 months
iosreact-native-modulereact-nativespotlightsearch
datacamp/react-native-survicate
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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