James Tandy
Director at TandyUK Servers
Worthing, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Tandy is a seasoned IT director and hands-on application developer with 11+ years of professional experience designing distributed applications, relational databases and Linux server infrastructure from his base in Worthing, UK. As founder of TandyUK Servers he combines running an ISP and full-service IT consultancy with day-to-day engineering skills in PHP/MySQL, networking and VoIP, delivering hosting, backups and bespoke systems. He has led product development for online games and e-commerce, notably driving a tenfold traffic increase through SEO and UX work at BetterDIY and contributing backend features to the popular EDMarketConnector tool for Elite: Dangerous. Comfortable shifting between project management and low-level administration, James is particularly interested in automated integrations and database design that scale reliably across distributed environments.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
A level, Computing, Electronics, Maths, A level, Computing, Electronics, Maths at Worthing Sixth Form CollegeGCSE, Maths, English, English Lit, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, History, Resistant Materials, GCSE, Maths, English, English Lit, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, History, Resistant Materials at Guildford County School
English
Github Skills (2)
webbrowser10
python10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
EDCD/EDMarketConnector
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Downloads commodity market and other station data from the game Elite: Dangerous for use with all popular online and offline trading tools.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 issue in 1 day
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the application by adding a feature to automatically open the EDSM (Elite: Dangerous Star Map) system view when an uncharted system is found. They implemented this feature by modifying `prefs.py`, `edsm.py`, and `config.py`. These changes involved adding a new configuration option, integrating EDSM API calls with web browser functionality, and updating the user interface preferences to allow the user to enable/disable the automated opening of EDSM.
tradingelite-dangerousfrontier-apieddn
tandyuk/ansible-logging-playbook
Nov 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:91 commits, 65 pushes in 10 months
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