James Newell
Principal Engineer at me&u
Newcastle-Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Newell is a Principal Engineer with 12 years of experience helping product teams deliver higher-quality software faster, currently leading architecture and delivery at me&u. He has progressed from hands-on frontend roles to engineering management and principal-level influence across companies like Mr Yum, Automattic and Atlassian, blending deep UI expertise with systems thinking. James champions developer confidence and efficient delivery practices, often focusing on pragmatic tooling and process improvements that scale across organisations. Based in Newcastle-Maitland, he started building custom web solutions as the owner of Digital Edge IT, a background that gives him an unusually strong appreciation for product constraints and customer-facing engineering trade-offs.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering at University of NewcastleHigher School Certificate, Higher School Certificate at Mackillop CollegeSt Joseph's Regional High School
Github Skills (200)
parser10
xmlhttprequest10
swc10
padding10
css-in-js10
styled-components10
thunk10
publish10
realms10
reload10
gutenberg10
whitespace10
javascript10
wordpress10
gulp10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
digitaledgeit/js-no-frills-request
Nov 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
jameslnewell/react-render-image
Dec 2017 - Sep 2020
Render an image in React.
Contributions:11 commits, 10 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 years 9 months
reactrenderimagereact-image-loadreact-load-image
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