Summary
Jim Cheesman is a Senior Software Architect based in Madrid with 14 years of experience delivering enterprise Java solutions across finance, government and education sectors. He combines hands-on architecture and development with project management, having led geographically distributed teams and overseen integrations involving BPM (Tibco, Appian), digital signature, Spring Boot, Docker and Oracle backends. Comfortable switching between technical consulting and client-facing roles, he has been trusted for system integration at the Spanish Ministry of Justice and long-term engagements with major insurers. Early career work in C++ and server licensing systems gives him a pragmatic systems-thinking background beyond Java stacks. Fluent in English and Spanish, he is equally at home reviewing code quality and designing technical data architectures for complex legacy-modernization programs. His uncommon blend of aerospace engineering training and deep enterprise integration experience helps him reason about reliability and process at scale.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
St. Paul's School, Barnes
BEng, Aeronautics and Astronautics, BEng, Aeronautics and Astronautics at University of Southampton
Spanish, English