James Sutterfield
Senior Software Engineer at Cocoon
Amsterdam, North Holland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Sutterfield is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling backend systems for high-traffic consumer and financial platforms. He’s worked across languages and stacks—from PHP/MySQL and RabbitMQ at Mollie to Go and Java services powering Uber’s wallet and payments—bringing a pragmatic full-stack perspective to distributed systems and transaction processing. At Fandom he authored multiple RESTful services, optimized high-traffic databases to millisecond performance, and was a core developer on a discussions product deployed across 500k communities. Now based in Amsterdam and currently at Cocoon, he combines product-focused engineering with a curiosity for internationalization (contributions to the Wikia/app i18n) and side projects like My Name Fairy. James is especially strong at turning messy, legacy systems into reliable, observable services that scale.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
NoisebridgeJava Programming Certificate, Computer Science, Java Programming Certificate, Computer Science at City College of San FranciscoUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (11)
i18n-js10
internationalization10
mediawiki10
php10
localization10
manage10
ember-i18n10
rails-i18n10
translation10
translate10
translation-editor10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Wikia/app
Dec 2013 - May 2018
Wikia Application Code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 267 PRs, 595 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:James contributed to the Wikia/app repository by downloading translation files, adding and modifying internationalization files for various languages. These changes involved updating message strings related to discussion logs and email notifications. The commits indicate a focus on internationalization, localization, and maintaining the application's multi-lingual support.
wikiphpwikiamediawiki
jsutterfield/crafting_interpreters
Apr 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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