James S
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames S is a senior full-stack software engineer based in London with 11 years’ experience building resilient, user-focused web applications across React, Vue, GraphQL, Node.js, AWS and Kubernetes. He has driven frontend technical direction and led newsletter and email-platform rebuilds at organisations such as the Financial Times and Condé Nast, while currently shaping product-facing engineering at SamKnows. Comfortable in cross-functional agile teams, he combines hands-on engineering with people leadership, line management and mentoring—having grown mid-level engineers and run hiring and inclusion initiatives. A long-time open source advocate, he founded Your First PR to help under-indexed contributors get started and has guided projects on accessibility and first-time contributor experience. As an autistic trans man he deliberately blends technical work with community-building and accessibility practice, creating products that work for diverse users and teams. Colleagues value him for explaining complex technical ideas clearly and for prioritising healthy, collaborative engineering cultures as much as clean code.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Psychology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Psychology at Goldsmiths College, U. of LondonSecondary Education, Secondary Education at Highbury Fields School for GirlsStoke Newington Sixth Form
English
Github Skills (200)
couchdb10
browser10
pouchdb10
static-site-generator10
dog10
nodejs10
mongodb10
css10
user-interface10
orange10
frontend10
windows10
styled-components10
pocket10
declarative10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
NodeTogether/nodetogether.org
Feb 2016 - Sep 2023
welcome to node, we're glad you're here
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 push, 1 comment in 7 years 8 months
javascriptnodejswelcomegladnode
mrmrs/contrast
Jul 2015 - Sep 2023
Visual example for readable and unreadable contrasts
Contributions:2 PRs in 8 years 4 months
reactreadablecontrasts
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