James Speake
Head Of Development at Go Vocal (formerly CitizenLab)
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Speake is a seasoned technical leader with over 20 years of experience designing, building and operating public-facing web platforms and internal business systems. As Head of Development he combines hands-on full‑stack skills (HTML/CSS/JS/TypeScript, PHP, Drupal, Symfony, MySQL, Java) with nine-plus years of AWS and DevOps practice to deliver secure, scalable cloud architectures. He has led and grown multidisciplinary teams for 15+ years, driven ISO27001 and GDPR implementations, and overseen platforms that supported 1.5M learners and distributed over £5M annually. Comfortable at the board level, James translates strategic goals into technical roadmaps while retaining a strong appetite for hands-on delivery and complex data migrations. Based in Sheffield, he blends charity-sector impact work with commercial engineering leadership, often bridging product, security and operational concerns in the same role.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc (Hons) Electronic Imaging and Media Communications, Bsc (Hons) Electronic Imaging and Media Communications at University of Bradford
Github Skills (3)
democracy10
collective-intelligence10
vote10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CitizenLabDotCo/bucket-antivirus-function
Mar 2023 - Mar 2024
Serverless antivirus for cloud storage - forked from trussworks/bucket-anti-virus to add in file exclusions
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
jamesspeake/james.speake.org
Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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