James Seconde
Senior Developer Advocate
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Seconde is a Senior Developer Advocate with 10 years of software engineering and developer relations experience, currently representing Vonage (Ericsson) in the UK. He combines hands-on backend PHP work—refactoring and modernising the vonage-php-sdk-core for SMS and voice features—with public-facing roles as a speaker, meetup host and community organiser (founder of brumPHP and co-organiser of Fusion Meetup). James blends theatrical training and clear communication to explain complex APIs and developer strategies, making technical content accessible to diverse audiences. His background spans product engineering, community leadership and developer strategy across startups and enterprises, and he notably drives SDK quality improvements that remove legacy debt and increase compatibility with modern PHP. Outside work he balances a creative side as an actor and writer with family life as a husband and dad, bringing empathy and storytelling to developer advocacy.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons) English Literature/Theatre Studies English Literature (British and Commonwealth), BA (Hons) English Literature/Theatre Studies English Literature (British and Commonwealth) at University of Chester
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Github Skills (12)
sms-messages10
php10
voice10
api10
messaging10
sms10
apidoc10
testing9
phpunit9
laravel6
laravel-livewire6
vonage6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Vonage/vonage-php-sdk-core
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Vonage REST API client for PHP. API support for SMS, Voice, Text-to-Speech, Numbers, Verify (2FA) and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 releases, 65 reviews, 161 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:James focused on refactoring and improving the core PHP SDK, specifically related to SMS messaging and voice communication. They addressed deprecations, removed legacy code, and updated the code to be more compatible with modern PHP versions. Furthermore, the user also made changes related to handling block numbers, number prefixes, and the addition of a pay NCCO.
sms-messagesdeveloper-destinationnexmovoice-to-textserver-sdk
SecondeJK/j24-giphy
Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
Everyone's favourite entertainment API
Contributions:10 PRs, 37 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
apientertainmentnodejsfavouriterest-api
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