James Stout
Project Manager at BNP Paribas
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolJames Stout is an experienced Financial Technology leader and project manager with 13 years (and earlier technical roots) delivering front-to-back solutions across global banks including Morgan Stanley, UBS, HSBC, JPMorgan and BNP Paribas. He blends deep software development lifecycle expertise and hands-on engineering experience (iOS/macOS, backend PHP/Node, C/C++) with strong program delivery skills in regulatory, broker onboarding and risk-driven initiatives across APAC. Known for bridging business and technical domains, he has led cross-functional teams, built offshore BA/QA capabilities, and managed multi-million dollar budgets and mission-critical trading systems. As a former CTO and indie iOS developer, he retains active engineering instincts and open-source contributions—having fixed backend bugs, improved localization, and enhanced UI queue handling in notable repos like ImageOptim and SpotWeb. Based in Hong Kong, he is pragmatic under aggressive timelines and adept at aligning compliance, product and technology to enable new market functionality. Unusually for a senior PM, he pairs day-to-day delivery discipline with a developer’s eye for localization and UX detail.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Information Technology, MSc Information Technology at University of NottinghamM.Med.Sci Medicine, M.Med.Sci Medicine at University of BirminghamBSc Applied and Human Biology, BSc Applied and Human Biology at Aston University
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Github Skills (21)
objective-c10
translation10
osdev10
php10
localization10
front-end-development10
macos10
image-optimization9
forum9
co9
usenet9
indexing8
ncb8
nsuserdefaults7
declaration6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
spotweb/spotweb
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
Decentralized community
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Localization Specialist
Back-end Developer & Localization SpecialistContributions:19 commits, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:James contributed to bug fixes and enhancements in the SpotWeb project, primarily addressing PHP code and addressing issues in the `SpotPage_newznabapi.php` and `posting.js` files. They added new translations for various phrases, and also made significant changes to the translation generation script. This user also focused on correcting typos and improving translations within the templates, demonstrating skills in both back-end development and localization.
reactethereumnzbforumindexing
ImageOptim/ImageOptim
May 2013 - Jul 2013
GUI image optimizer for Mac
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:James implemented features related to the application's core functionality, including adding a singleton, managing queue counts, and integrating the queue count with the UI through an NSScriptCommand. They modified both header and implementation files, updating the utilities and file queue classes. The user also worked on integrating the queue count with the UI and refactored code to support 32-bit architectures. Additionally, they contributed to localization by adding translations and updating the credits section, integrating HTML.
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