James Prendergast
Senior Software Engineer at Fiskil
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Prendergast is a Senior Software Engineer and Solutions Architect based in New South Wales with nearly 20 years in web and application development and 11 years of focused industry experience. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering with cloud-native architecture and DevOps, having designed serverless, event-driven systems and operated customer-facing production services. James has held leadership and consulting roles across startups and enterprises—including AWS Solutions Architect, lead engineer roles at SocietyOne and Stan, and director-level consulting for clients like Macquarie Bank. He’s comfortable shipping scalable APIs, microservices and streaming workflows in Go, Node.js and serverless stacks while mentoring teams and running operations. A biochemistry graduate who pivoted into software, he brings a methodical, data-informed approach to system design and troubleshooting that isn’t obvious from job titles alone. Currently he splits time between senior engineering at Fiskil and running Solidus Software Consulting, combining product delivery with strategic architecture work.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Biochemistry, BSc, Biochemistry at The University of ManchesterSt. Albans Boys School
Github Skills (49)
code-review9
aws-cli8
aws8
aws-lambda8
vscode8
amazon8
amazon-web-services7
azure-functions7
serverless-framework7
command-line-interface7
api7
serverless7
cli6
lambda6
nodejs6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
justasitsounds/blinky-suit
Feb 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
justasitsounds/thrusto
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
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