James Routley
Head Of Engineering at Sling Money
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Routley is a Head of Engineering based in London with 11 years of experience building backend systems and scaling product growth across fintech startups. He moved from a long stint as a backend engineer at Monzo to founding backend engineer and now engineering lead at Sling Money, combining hands-on development with team leadership. An Oxford-trained engineer and Recurse Centre alumnus, he pairs academic rigor with practical, self-directed learning and community-driven craftsmanship. He’s contributed to open-source infrastructure tooling—improving Sceptre’s documentation and usability—reflecting a focus on developer experience and reliable cloud deployments. Outside pure engineering he’s taught advanced Python and co-founded a small hospitality venture, signalling an aptitude for mentoring and cross-functional problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary School, Secondary School at St Paul's SchoolMaster’s Degree Engineering Science, Master’s Degree Engineering Science at University of Oxford
English
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Github Skills (8)
infrastructure10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
python10
documentation10
cli9
go6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Sceptre/sceptre
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
Build better AWS infrastructure
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:215 commits, 52 PRs, 144 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the Sceptre project by addressing documentation issues, improving installation instructions, and enhancing user guidance within the "Get Started" section. They also updated the documentation for the python module and CLI commands. Furthermore, the user added and removed sections of documentation, and integrated syntax highlighting, thus improving the user experience and overall project accessibility.
awscloudformationinfrastructurepythondevops
jamesroutley/algorithms-and-data-structures
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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