James Townley
Senior Engineering Consultant at Gizwibit Technologies LTD
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Townley is a senior engineering consultant and reactive systems expert with 12 years of experience designing and shipping distributed, high-throughput systems using Scala, Python, MongoDB and reactive architectures. He blends hands-on engineering with product and security leadership—having driven Akka product strategy, licensing changes that unlocked >$5M ARR, and SOC2 readiness—and currently consults at MongoDB while running his own contracting firm. James has a track record of turning legacy ETL users into developers, cutting batch processing times from days to minutes, and coaching teams through technical transitions. Comfortable wearing many hats, he combines domain-driven design and TDD with pragmatic architecture choices, and brings an uncommon mix of startup firmware experience and open-source/community stewardship to large-scale, mission-critical systems.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of VictoriaHigh School, High School at St. Michaels University SchoolAudio Engineering, Audio, Audio Engineering, Audio at Trebas Institute
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (119)
python10
windows10
linux10
kivy10
android10
ui-framework10
ios9
reaction9
react9
cross-platform9
macos9
akka8
printing8
reactive8
streaming8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
reactivefoundation/foundation
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
Interacting with Reaction Foundation Staff
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 9 months
reactreactionfoundationreactjsstaff
PeachyPrinter/ImageBuilder
Feb 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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