James Zaghini
Senior Software Engineer at Fat Zebra
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolJames Zaghini is a Senior Software Engineer based in Queensland, Australia, with 13 years of hands-on experience building native iOS apps and backend services. He blends deep iOS expertise in Swift and Objective-C with backend Ruby on Rails and occasional Python/Django work, having integrated mobile software with custom hardware and payment systems. James has shipped products across startups and enterprise environments—from mobile payments and accessibility-focused apps to hardware-integrated consumer products at Logitech—while also introducing CI, automated testing, and workflow automation. Comfortable owning end-to-end development, he has led cross-platform teams, mentored juniors, and managed external contractors and repositories. An engineer who often straddles mobile and server concerns, he brings a pragmatic focus on quality, accessibility, and operational maturity to product development.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computing, Bachelor of Science, Computing at University of Southern QueenslandCertificate IV in Digital Media, Flash, Photoshop, Credit, Certificate IV in Digital Media, Flash, Photoshop, Credit at TAFE
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Github Skills (79)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jameszaghini/floaty
May 2018 - Jan 2021
A minimalist, float on top web browser for macOS
Contributions:10 releases, 238 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 8 months
macosweb-browseralways-on-top
jameszaghini/bonjour-demo-osx-to-ios
May 2015 - Apr 2020
OS X bonjour server with iOS client written in Swift
Contributions:48 commits, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
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