James Phoenix
Founding Engineer at General Assembly
High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Phoenix is a Founding Engineer with 10 years’ experience building production AI systems and SaaS platforms that scale—most recently architecting a 350K LOC platform handling 5K daily queries (917 RPS) across OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Vertex AI with headroom to 100K/day. He combines end-to-end ownership—architecture, implementation, deployment and observability—with practical AI engineering: multi-provider LLM orchestration, custom agents, AIMD-style rate control, and 30+ OpenTelemetry metrics driving automated alerts and dashboards. An O’Reilly author and instructor whose prompt-engineering book and Udemy course reached wide audiences, he pairs evangelism and pedagogy with rigorous engineering (factory-first tests, chaos/load suites). Equally comfortable as a solo indie-builder and as a CTO or staff engineer, he brings a marketer’s product sense from prior roles in SEO and analytics, and a demonstrated ability to turn complex distributed AI workloads into reliable, observable services.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
GCSES, GCSES at Claires CourtProfessional Diploma in Digital Marketing - Equivalent to Level 6 (Bachelor's Degree) qualification, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing - Equivalent to Level 6 (Bachelor's Degree) qualification, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia at The Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing (IDM)Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biochemistry at Liverpool John Moores UniversityA Levels , Biology, Chemistry, Geography, A Levels , Biology, Chemistry, Geography at The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
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Github Skills (65)
seo10
pandas9
api9
python9
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rest8
javascript8
python-client8
scraper8
google-api8
nodejs8
api-client7
cms7
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jamesaphoenix/Python_For_SEO
May 2020 - Jul 2022
A 16-Part Free Course Demonstrating All Of The Different Ways That You Can Use Python To Improve Your SEO Processes.
Contributions:124 commits, 145 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
pythonseopandasseo-processes
etzimopoulos/COURSE-python-for-SEO-byJP
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:64 commits in 1 month
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