James Wheare
Founder Product Design Developer at IRCCloud
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Wheare is a founder, product designer and developer with 17 years of experience building social software and online communities from concept to production. As the founder of IRCCloud he blends front-end UI design and back-end engineering (JavaScript, Erlang) to deliver resilient, real-time group chat for teams and communities. His open-source contributions show pragmatic systems thinking—improving monitoring tooling like Diamond’s RabbitMQ collector and hardening build pipelines for widely used emoji-data assets. Trained originally in architecture, he applies spatial and systems design principles to information architecture and product experience. Based in the UK, he combines hands-on coding with product leadership and a long track record of turning social data into engaging, maintainable services.
17 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bryanston SchoolBSc, Architecture, BSc, Architecture at University of Bath
French
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Github Skills (28)
monitoring10
json10
python10
emoji10
rabbitmq10
php10
build-automation10
testing9
dropdown-menu9
console9
javascript9
data-processing9
logging9
unicode8
script8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
python-diamond/Diamond
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
Diamond is a python daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to Graphite (and others). It is capable of collecting cpu, memory, network, i/o, load and disk metrics. Additionally, it features an API for implementing custom collectors for gathering metrics from almost any source.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the `rabbitmq` collector within the Diamond monitoring system. Their work focused on enhancing the RabbitMQ collector by adding features like querying individual queues, fixing bugs, improving exception handling, and refactoring code for better maintainability. They made improvements to test coverage and API calls, specifically related to gathering and reporting metrics from RabbitMQ instances. Their contributions included enhancements to configuration options, vhost handling, and metrics collection logic.
memorypythonprometheusdiamondmonitoring
iamcal/emoji-data
Apr 2014 - Jun 2021
Easy to parse data and spritesheets for emoji
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 19 comments in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on improving the build process and data generation for the emoji data repository. Their contributions included making the build scripts more portable, allowing the build image to run from scratch, and updating the gemoji submodule. They also made several code changes to the build scripts that involved handling various unicode data and json output, showing a good understanding of data processing and build automation.
emojiparseemoticonsspritesheets
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