James Wallis
Software Engineer at Anchore
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJames Wallis is a front-end focused software engineer with nine years’ experience building user-facing applications and developer tooling, currently shipping product at Anchore from London. He evolved from junior roles at IBM—where he contributed React/TypeScript UI work to the well-known IBM Blockchain VS Code extension—to senior front-end positions at Skylark, delivering polished features and refactors. James pairs a First-class Computer Science degree with hands-on full-stack experience, regularly improving tutorial and transaction views and test suites in complex codebases. Known for pragmatic UI design and a knack for simplifying multi-contract blockchain workflows, he maintains a personal site (wallis.dev) and is approachable for collaborations and enquiries.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, First, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, First at University of Portsmouth
Github Skills (9)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
vscode-extension10
react10
typescript-types10
testing9
chai9
blockchain8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
IBM-Blockchain/blockchain-vscode-extension
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
IBM Blockchain Platform extension for Visual Studio Code (this project is no longer active)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 60 commits, 74 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the IBM Blockchain Platform extension for VS Code, developing and modifying UI components using React and TypeScript. They implemented features such as a survey popup, and refactored code, specifically for the tutorial view. Their work also involved updating and maintaining the transaction view, including handling multiple smart contracts within the same chaincode. Furthermore, they made modifications to testing components.
blockchain-platformvisual-studio-code
james-wallis/devto-writing-streak-calculator
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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