Jamie Holmes
Technology Director - Central Europe at Tesco
Welwyn Hatfield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJamie Holmes is a technology leader with 11 years’ experience building high‑performing engineering teams and mission-critical, massively scalable APIs across Tesco and retail startups. Currently Technology Director for Central Europe and CTO at Transcend Retail Solutions, he blends hands‑on engineering roots from Tesco Labs with strategic leadership in identity and platform domains. Jamie excels at driving continuous innovation under high throughput constraints—systems he oversees routinely support thousands of transactions per second. He also contributes to front‑end open source work, improving UX and accessibility (e.g., keyboard shortcuts and responsive UI enhancements on a Chrome extension), reflecting a pragmatic focus on both developer- and customer-facing quality. Based in Welwyn Hatfield and grounded in an economics degree from Durham, he brings product-aware technical decision making and a track record of scaling teams and systems across complex retail environments.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics at Durham UniversitySt. Albans School
Github Skills (15)
javascript10
chrome-plugin10
chrome-extension10
chrome-app10
browser-extension10
lessc9
css9
html9
user-interface8
backbone8
backbonejs8
interface-design8
ui-design8
marionette7
accessibility7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension
May 2015 - May 2015
A YouTube video player as a Google Chrome extension
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and adding new features to the Streamus Chrome extension. They implemented keyboard shortcuts and context menu functionality, improving user interaction and accessibility. Their work also included modifying the UI to adapt to different display sizes and refactoring UI components for better organization and maintainability. The contributions demonstrate a focus on front-end development with a clear emphasis on user experience.
google-chrome-extensionvideo-playeryoutube
purplefox/mewbase
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:12 commits in 29 days
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