James Roden is a Head of Tech and geospatial full‑stack engineer with 10 years of experience building production GIS platforms, APIs, cloud infrastructure and data pipelines for enterprise clients. Based in London, he leads a player‑coach team at McKenzie Intelligence Services owning the GEO web application stack from React and Node.js to Python processing, Postgres/MongoDB and AWS. His background spans consulting and industry roles at NV5/L3Harris and ExxonMobil, where he specialised in Processing‑as‑a‑Service, automation of spatial workflows and large‑scale geospatial data engineering. Known for blending hands‑on development with delivery leadership, he brings deep ArcGIS/ENVI experience and a track record of turning complex spatial science into consumable, scalable services.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Geography, BSc, Geography at Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe
MSc, Geographical Information Systems, MSc, Geographical Information Systems at University of South Wales
An ArcGIS toolbox to semi-automatically identify and analyse geo-depressions in a bathymetric grid.
Contributions:34 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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James Roden - Head Of Tech at McKenzie Intelligence Services