James Pamplin
CTO Founding Engineer at Circular Way
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Pamplin is a seasoned CTO and founding engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack web and mobile products, leading teams, and shaping cloud-native architectures from London. He has repeatedly taken early-stage ventures from concept to delivery—co-founding multiple startups (Lebom, Circular Way, Budee AI, Sellalong) while also driving engineering at established media and financial organisations like the BBC, The Guardian, and Barclaycard. Technically fluent across TypeScript, Node, React/React Native, serverless AWS, Terraform and container platforms, he pairs hands-on development with hiring, mentoring and production-grade operational practices. His background includes leading high-traffic consumer platforms and architecting distributed systems, CI/CD pipelines and microservices for demanding, real-time experiences. Passionate about sustainability, he often aligns product strategy with environmental impact and practical technical debt management. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer-leader who can both code in the stack and translate long-term architecture into shipped product.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (Software), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Software), Software Engineering at University of Newcastle
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Github Skills (85)
jspm10
guardian10
shopify-app-bridge10
frontend10
package-json10
testing9
eslint-config9
aws9
eslint9
continuous-integration9
js8
shopify-app8
ecmascript8
developer-tools8
javascript8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/workflow-frontend
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015
The Workflow Frontend
Contributions:1297 commits in 1 year 2 months
frontendproduction
jamespamplin/eslint-config-idiomatic
Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
ESLint config for the idiomatic js style
Contributions:3 releases, 112 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 10 months
eslint-configjseslintidiomatic-jseslint-rules
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