James Porter
Software Developer at CAIS
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Porter is a polyglot software developer and PhD-trained data scientist with 11 years of experience building end-to-end systems—from native iOS/Android apps and React/React Native frontends to Rails/Node backends and Python data science pipelines. He has led teams and mentored engineers in FinTech, realtime messaging, workplace tooling and EdTech, and has shipped production features like websocket chat, native encryption, and analytics integrations. Comfortable across TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin, Ruby, Python and more, he combines rigorous academic training in complexity science with hands-on product delivery. Notably, he’s built consumer Android apps with over half a million downloads and led engineering efforts at both startups and large institutions such as JPMorgan Chase. Based in London, he thrives on cross-disciplinary problems that sit at the intersection of data, real‑time systems and mobile UX.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MRes, Mathematics, Ecology, MRes, Mathematics, Ecology at University of YorkMSc, Complexity Science, MSc, Complexity Science at University of Warwick
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Github Skills (89)
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information-visualization10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jamesporter/solandra-svg
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
Creating SVG graphics, but with a nice API
Contributions:39 commits, 23 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 6 months
apisvg-imagessvgsvg-filessvg-graphics
jamesporter/solandra-flutter
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
Let's make drawing stuff with Flutter more concise, simple and powerful
Contributions:39 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 9 months
flutterdartletdrawing
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