James Tasker
Engineering Lead at Journey
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Tasker is an engineering lead with 12 years of hands-on experience delivering cloud-native, customer-facing systems across e-commerce, HR, transport, defence and aerospace. He combines deep practical skills in TypeScript/Node and C#/.NET Core with production expertise in AWS, event-driven architectures and observability—prioritising monitoring, alerting and supportability. Throughout roles from senior developer to technical lead, he has steered requirements gathering, system specification and stakeholder engagement while championing clean code, TDD and agile delivery. Now leading engineering at Journey after technical leadership at cinch and MAG-O, he’s adept at translating complex domain needs into reliable distributed services. A mathematician by further study and a computer science graduate from Manchester, he pairs analytical rigour with pragmatic engineering. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on leader who prefers shipping resilient systems over theoretical elegance.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Higher Education Mathematics, Diploma of Higher Education Mathematics at The Open UniversityBSc (Hons) Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science at The University of ManchesterSt Ambrose CollegeGithub contributions (5)
o0Tasker0o/UILibrary
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:20 commits in 3 days
o0Tasker0o/TuringMachine
Oct 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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