James Stanier
Chief Technology Officer, Veterinary at Nordhealth
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Stanier is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO for Veterinary at Nordhealth with 12 years of engineering leadership experience spanning startups to public companies. He scaled Brandwatch from seed to a $450M acquisition and later led large engineering organizations at Shopify, proving skill in assembling and steering teams of hundreds toward strategic priorities. A PhD in compilers informs his technical depth, while his authorship of three books and a monthly newsletter show a commitment to sharing insights on management and remote work. He advises industry events like LeadDev and has a knack for translating academic rigor into practical, high-impact engineering practices across product, org design, and delivery. An atypical detail: his early editorial work rebranding ACM’s student magazine with Pentagram hints at a long-standing interest in marrying technical content with clear communication.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
North East Surrey College of Technology (NESCOT)PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of SussexSutton Grammar School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
hbase10
elixir10
shodan10
matching10
java10
directives10
sql10
robots-txt10
database10
apache9
txt9
parsing9
robot9
test-suite8
big-data8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jstanier/tweet-scheduler
Mar 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:57 commits in 3 months
tweetstwitterschedule
BrandwatchLtd/pgq-consumer
Jul 2014 - Feb 2015
PGQ consumer for Java.
Contributions:36 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 months
java
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