James Watts
Co-Founder at KUSANAGI
United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJames Watts is a seasoned software leader and founder with 13 years of experience building scalable, API-first web architectures across startups and enterprise environments. As co-founder of Navigo and founder of stealth startup KUSANAGI, he blends hands-on engineering with product vision to deliver cloud-native, automated web platforms focused on resilience and safety. A core contributor to CakePHP since 2008 and author of the CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook, he brings deep expertise in distributed systems, service-oriented design, and rigorous engineering practices like TDD and 100% test coverage. James excels at technical communication, API strategy, and mentoring teams while remaining on the front lines of development. He also pursues impact-driven projects—applying technology to increase safety for aid workers—and contributes to standards and open-source tooling beyond day-to-day product work.
12 years of coding experience
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (10)
unit-testing10
mvc10
php10
http-status-code10
cakephp9
web-framework9
orm8
validations7
validation7
psr-76
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/cakephp
Aug 2013 - Feb 2015
CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:James focused on improving the robustness and maintainability of the CakePHP framework. Their contributions involved updating the handling of HTTP response status codes, enhancing unit tests for these codes, and correcting documentation. Additionally, the user addressed potential errors related to array operations and removed outdated documentation, further refining the codebase's clarity and stability.
php-frameworkormform-buildervalidationpsr-7
jameswatts/cake-markup-language
Jul 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:36 commits in 1 year
procedural-phpmarkup-languagephpproceduralxml
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