James Sear
CEO & Co-founder at Avion
South Kesteven, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Sear is a founder and product-minded technologist with 11 years’ experience building user-focused software and leading teams as CEO and co-founder of Avion, a digital story-mapping tool that helps product teams visualise and prioritise work from the user perspective. With a background in design that moved through front-end engineering to systems architecture, he blends UX sensitivity with hands-on full-stack development (React, Node, .NET) to bridge product strategy and delivery. He has led technical architecture and senior development at agencies and in-house teams, shipping work for enterprise clients and high-visibility consumer campaigns. James excels when entrepreneurship, communication and technical craft intersect, turning fuzzy user problems into testable, pragmatic solutions. Based in the UK, he brings a designer’s eye to product leadership and a practical engineering toolkit that keeps teams aligned around real user outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels French Economics IT, A-Levels French Economics IT at Balcarras, CheltenhamMusic Composition & Professional Practice (First Class BAHons) Music Media Art & Design, Music Composition & Professional Practice (First Class BAHons) Music Media Art & Design at Coventry UniversityDean Close School, Cheltenham
English, French
Github Skills (200)
realtime10
drag10
microfrontend10
sortable10
runner10
job-scheduling10
javascript10
inferno10
frequency10
reactive-programming10
recurring10
queue10
build-system10
rpc10
nodejs10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jpsear/Stage-CSS
Jul 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 31 issues in 5 years 9 months
MMTDigital/generator-mmt-webpack
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
A yeoman generator to output a webpack boilerplate generator to seed internal MMT Digital projects
Contributions:54 commits, 3 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 2 months
internalboilerplatewebpack-boilerplateyeomanseed
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