James Spry-leverton
Engineering Manager at Spotted Zebra
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Spry-leverton is an engineering manager based in London with 11 years of experience leading full-stack teams and shipping production-grade web and payment systems. He champions immutability, purity, and declarative interfaces, and has progressed from hands-on front-end engineering to senior leadership roles including Engineering Director and now Engineering Manager at Spotted Zebra. His background spans TypeScript/Nest.js/GraphQL and Python/Django stacks, with deep experience building payment products and scaling cross-continental squads between London and San Francisco. Notable achievements include leading Kalo’s first San Francisco crew, helping secure Series A funding for payment products, and driving core platform work at Pollen. He blends technical craftsmanship with people leadership—coaching cohorts, defining engineering processes, and consistently moving teams from prototype to reliable, scalable delivery.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Oakham SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Exeter
English
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Github Skills (6)
react6
forms3
ui-components2
docker-compose1
docker1
dockerfile1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
spryle/dotfiles
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
kalohq/ui
May 2017 - Jan 2018
Kalo UI Kit & Design Documentation
Contributions:20 commits in 8 months
reactui-librarydesign-systemui-componentsui-kit
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