James Outterside
Senior Backend Developer at Kraken
Burnopfield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Outterside is a Senior Backend Developer with over a decade of experience building scalable Python/Django systems and leading teams to production. He specialises in data-heavy analytics platforms and high-throughput telemetry processing, having architected solutions that handle over a billion measurements per year and surfaced insights for EV and engineering clients. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs Django and HTMX with modern frontends like Next.js, and deploys resilient services on AWS using Kubernetes, ECS and CoPilot. He’s mentored junior engineers and improved engineering practices—introducing testable, performant code, CI/CD and observability stacks such as Grafana/Loki and Datadog. Based in Burnopfield, England, James combines hands-on implementation with client-facing delivery, regularly turning complex discovery into commercial products that scale.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSC Internet Computing, BSC Internet Computing at Northumbria University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
django-project10
django10
permission10
django-blog10
authentication10
django-models10
passwords10
user-data10
django-admin10
django-framework9
datetime9
python9
forms9
django-crispy-forms9
cookiecutter9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wildfish/django-gdpr-assist
Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
Tools to help manage user data in the age of GDPR
Contributions:3 reviews, 85 commits, 40 PRs in 2 years 4 months
pythonagedjangouser-datagdpr
ukhsa-collaboration/nsc-recommendationsp
Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:16 reviews, 27 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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