James Phillips
Chief Technology Officer at AnyJunk
Helensburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Phillips is a results-driven Chief Technology Officer with a decade of hands-on experience modernising tech stacks and delivering scalable software in the green waste and marketplace sectors. A 13-year Scala veteran and typelevel enthusiast, he combines functional, defensive programming with pragmatic engineering to boost developer velocity and operational efficiency. He has led end-to-end transformations—from zero-downtime migrations and backend-driven frontend logic to cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK—while building extendable teams and systems that enable long-term economic growth. Based in Helensburgh, Scotland, James pairs a Cambridge mathematics foundation with a knack for encoding business rules into APIs, an approach that repeatedly turns complex domain problems into measurable business value. Notably, he has blended technical authorship and leadership, having written about functional programming and driven adoption of the Scala/typelevel stack across teams.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Mathematics at University of CambridgeQueen Mary's College
Github Skills (97)
generic-programming10
sql10
database10
sbt-plugin10
sbt10
scala10
slick10
lenses10
functional-programming10
uri9
argonaut9
url-parsing9
zinc9
dotty8
compile-time7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jdrphillips/shapeless
Jan 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
generic-programmingscalafunctional-programminggeneric
TypeChecked/alphabet-soup
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Type calculations at compile time
Contributions:40 commits, 49 PRs, 95 pushes in 24 days
compile-timecompilecalculations
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