James Owers
Lead Software Engineer at Marigold
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Owers is a Lead Software Engineer with 12 years of commercial experience building web and SaaS products across startups, established companies, and government initiatives from the UK. He currently leads engineering at Marigold, overseeing a microservice-based, API-first ecommerce platform and driving delivery, stability, and performance improvements. Previously as Technical Lead at Moltin he translated product roadmaps into actionable projects and worked with a diverse stack including MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis and AWS (EKS, Lambda, SQS, Athena) across Go, Node.js, PHP, Lua and Ruby. His background includes building integrated business systems and mobile-enabled field-data apps used in real-world programs, demonstrating a pragmatic focus on automation and operational efficiency. Colleagues would describe him as a hands-on leader who balances architecture and delivery while spotting opportunities to simplify and optimize complex ecommerce flows. He brings a combination of long-term product ownership and practical cross-stack engineering that helps teams ship reliable, scalable systems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Roseberry Sports and Community CollegeIT Professional, IT Professional at Gateshead College
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Github Skills (23)
moltin8
sdk7
api6
woocommerce-rest-api5
javascript5
ecommerce4
ip-geolocation4
nodejs4
commerce4
elastic3
email-address3
woocommerce3
typescript3
wordpress3
rest-api2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
moltin/vue-demo-store
May 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Jmz/design-pattern-experiments
May 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 5 months
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