James Shields
Software Developer at Zambia/PlanZ
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 (45)
circleci9
drupal9
react9
drupal-module9
cli8
drush8
php8
symfony8
scripting-interface8
psysh8
command-prompt8
gitlab-api7
gitlab7
command-line7
api7
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 - Mar 2026
Another web-based convention scheduling system
Contributions:75 pushes, 134 branches in 4 years
web-basedconventionschedulingscheduling-system
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