Jamie Thompson
Director, Architecture at Simpplr
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJamie Thompson is a Director of Architecture with 12 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale front-end systems, now leading architecture at Simpplr after driving microfrontend strategy at Sage. He combines deep JavaScript and React expertise with hands-on engineering—having built and standardised component libraries, CI/CD, observability, and security practices across enterprises. Jamie has practical experience transitioning monoliths to service-oriented microfrontends and implementing Module Federation and Single SPA patterns, plus AWS infrastructure automation using CDK and Terraform. An active open-source contributor, he extended Danger-JS to better support GitLab CI and inline commenting, improving developer workflow for GitLab users. Based in Newcastle, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with developer-focused documentation and training to accelerate team adoption of architectural change.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Web Systems Development Computing, BSc (Hons) Web Systems Development Computing at Edge Hill University
English, Sign languages
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
gitlab10
javascript10
js10
danger10
typescripts10
cil10
typescript-types10
testing10
api-design9
code-review9
git8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
danger/danger-js
May 2019 - Jun 2019
⚠️ Stop saying "you forgot to …" in code review
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 20 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of the GitLab platform integration within the Danger-JS project. They added support for GitLab features such as file contents, inline comments, and CI detection using GitLab CI. The contributions involved modifying existing code, adding new types, and writing tests to ensure functionality. This work improved Danger-JS's compatibility and functionality for GitLab users.
citravisjenkinsdanger-js
jamime/github-actions-private
Sep 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 5 branches in 1 year 10 months
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