James Stevenson
Chief Technology Officer at The National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB)
Brancepeth, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJames Stevenson is a seasoned Chief Technology Officer and hands-on software engineer with 25 years of experience delivering high-performance C# and Microsoft-centric systems across finance, IoT, and enterprise SaaS. He combines strategic leadership with deep technical execution—rescuing failing programs, refactoring batch pipelines into real-time platforms, and driving multi-million pound cost savings through consolidation and insourcing. James has built and scaled global engineering teams (15→50+), implemented Agile/CI-CD practices, and reduced developer attrition to near zero by restoring trust between business and IT. Notable wins include saving £7M by resolving IP ownership, enabling 20,000 messages/sec in a trading system, and cutting £160K annually through real-time IoT processing. Comfortable operating across UK, US and APAC time zones, he pairs commercial acumen and budget stewardship with rigorous systems engineering. Quietly practical, he blends legacy system mastery with modern cloud and real-time architectures to turn technical debt into competitive advantage.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (2)
pocketmine5
teamspeak5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jamsey700/CharityWebsite
Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:64 commits, 60 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
jamsey700/VisualBasicApplications
Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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