James Pain
Founder at Signal Rate
Colchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Pain is a founder and pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years’ experience rescuing stalled or leaderless teams and turning ambiguous ideas into production software. He has built and scaled engineering organisations and platforms from startup prototypes to enterprise-grade systems, most recently leading Checkatrade’s Labs and its wider engineering transformation and founding Signal Rate to provide rapid prototyping and fractional technical leadership. His background spans hands-on system design, AI-driven media automation (including a patented video personalisation process), cloud-native delivery frameworks and practical DevOps across GCP, Azure and Terraform. Known for cutting ceremony in favor of measurable outcomes, he excels at stabilising legacy monoliths, enabling fast experimentation, and shipping customer-facing AI features that drive real business value. Based in Colchester, he combines founder-level ownership with seasoned CTO experience and a knack for turning technical uncertainty into clear delivery pathways.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Home Education
Github Skills (59)
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url-shortener9
gif9
file-upload9
active-directory9
azure9
image-hosting8
openexr8
screencast8
screeps8
screen-recorder8
azure-active-directory8
imgur8
ocr8
ftp8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JPain/DailyProgrammer
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
JPain/jpain.github.io
Jul 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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