James Shields
Software Developer at ConClár
Ireland
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJames Shields is a seasoned software developer based in Ireland with decades-long passion for engineering and over 10 years of professional experience delivering web applications and open source tooling. He combines hands-on work at AIB Capital Markets with sustained volunteer leadership in the Drupal ecosystem—co-maintaining modules like Comment Mover and Scheduled Publish, contributing to Drupal Core, and improving test coverage across projects. James also founded and collaborates on convention-focused open source projects (ConClár, ConReg, Zambia/PlanZ) used by major events including the 2022 Worldcon and multiple national conventions, demonstrating both product-minded design and community coordination. Comfortable across PHP, JavaScript/React, MySQL and Drupal, he favors elegant, well-tested solutions and has a track record of turning practical needs (conference scheduling, registration, publishing) into robust, reusable software.
10 years of coding experience
Professional Module Development, Professional Module Development at DrupalEasyHDip, Computer Science, HDip, Computer Science at Technological University DublinSutton Park SchoolBSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at University of Staffordshire
Github Skills (60)
react9
drupal-module9
drupal8
api8
circleci8
javascript8
api-client8
gitlab-api7
psysh7
symfony-console7
gitlab7
php7
drush6
cli6
symfony6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lostcarpark/lego_filter_drupal6
Dec 2017 - Jun 2024
Contributions:14 PRs, 23 pushes, 15 branches in 6 years 7 months
lostcarpark/PlanZ
Mar 2022 - Apr 2025
Another web-based convention scheduling system
Contributions:72 pushes, 130 branches in 3 years
web-basedconventionschedulingscheduling-system
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