James Williams
Director at Equal Experts
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Williams is an engineering leader and director based in Dublin with 20+ years of experience building predictable, high-trust software teams and delivering complex systems across microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud platforms. He has a proven track record of turning struggling teams into reliable, high-performing units—rebuilding release pipelines, embedding CI/CD/DevOps practices, and restoring stakeholder confidence on desktop and cloud products alike. Comfortable both as a hands-on technologist and a people-first leader, he has led large migrations, monolith-to-microservice transformations, and cross-organisational integrations following acquisitions. Having run consultancy and delivery businesses and led product teams at Nitro and Equal Experts, he blends pragmatic delivery focus with strong alignment to business outcomes. An understated strength is his ability to design incremental API and ingest rework that lets teams evolve user journeys without halting feature delivery—literally rebuilding aircraft mid-flight.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Academy Diploma in Leadership & Management Leadership and Management, Professional Academy Diploma in Leadership & Management Leadership and Management at UCD Professional AcademyBachelor of Computing Software Engineering, Bachelor of Computing Software Engineering at University of Tasmania
Github Skills (35)
derived10
sbt9
jenkins9
sbt-plugin8
groovy8
webstorm8
rubymine8
scala7
appcode7
intellij-plugin7
zinc7
pycharm6
buffer6
jetbrains6
elixir-mix6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
liquidarmour/ct-calculations
Sep 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 339 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 3 months
liquidarmour/akka-http-docker.g8
Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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