James Samuel
Software Engineering Manager (International Growth)
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Samuel is a results-driven software engineering manager with 10 years of experience leading growth and product innovation across Europe, currently heading International Growth engineering at Reddit from Berlin. He combines hands-on backend and test automation expertise—evidenced by contributions to the popular open-source mock API tool Mockoon—with strategic leadership in retention, monetisation and onboarding from roles at TIER and earlier startups. Comfortable in cloud-native and distributed architectures, James has progressed from founding engineer and lead developer roles in Nigeria to senior engineering leadership in Europe, blending operational rigor with product-oriented experimentation. He also pursues applied ML and computer vision upskilling through Udacity, reflecting a curiosity for shipping intelligent, testable systems that scale internationally.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Vision Computer Vison, Computer Vision Computer Vison at UdacityBachelor of Science - BS Industrial Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS Industrial Chemistry at University of Ilorin, Nigeria
English, Yoruba
Stackoverflow
1,538reputation
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61answers
3questions
vuejs2
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
apidoc10
testing10
jes10
typescript10
mock-server10
api10
typescript-types10
mocking10
jtest10
rest-api10
typescripts10
server10
server-side10
vue9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mockoon/mockoon
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to run mock APIs locally. No remote deployment, no account required, open source.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to improving the backend functionality of the mock API server. They implemented features related to response header handling, including proxy and environment header integration. They also added unit tests to validate proxy behavior, increasing the test coverage of the project. Furthermore, the user addressed a typo and merged branch updates.
prototypingruby-clientmockingmockopenapi
abiodunjames/NodeJs-Todo-List
Jun 2018 - May 2021
Build a todo list with NodeJs backend and VueJs frontend
Contributions:1 release, 31 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 11 months
todobackend-nodejsexpressjsjavascriptvue
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