James Willett
Founder at Building Something New
Greater Reading Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Willett is a founder and Principal Software Engineer turned educator with 10+ years of experience transforming testing and platform engineering practices at large enterprises like SAP Concur. He rose from manual game testing to lead DevOps, SDET and platform teams by combining pragmatic automation (Scala, Gatling, REST Assured) with a knack for CI/CD and performance engineering. An independent course author for Pluralsight and Udacity, he leverages content creation as a career accelerator—teaching others how to stand out by documenting and sharing their work. Known for building scalable test and performance frameworks and mentoring teams on developer experience, he now focuses on inspiring the next generation of tech educators. A not-obvious strength: his career pivot was driven less by raw coding talent and more by consistent, iterative content practice that amplified his impact.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
GCSEs 10 grades A* - C, GCSEs 10 grades A* - C at Enfield Grammar SchoolBSc Computing Software Engineering, BSc Computing Software Engineering at University of PortsmouthAVCE Information and Communication Technology, AVCE Information and Communication Technology at Hertford Regional College
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,031reputation
137kreached
17answers
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Github Skills (61)
endpoints10
mkdocs9
json9
api9
hateoas9
rest-api9
xml9
gatling8
code-generator8
documentation8
database8
react8
api-documentation8
parsing8
rest8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
james-willett/james-willett.com
Mar 2019 - Mar 2023
Source code for my website
Contributions:48 PRs, 114 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 1 month
james-willett/gatling-academy-module-2
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 26 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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