Summary
Jim Kirkpatrick is a pragmatic digital solutions consultant and technical leader with 12+ years’ experience building and running full-stack web teams across startups, agencies and enterprise clients. He blends hands-on development (JS, React, PHP, Symfony, Drupal) with architecture, DevOps and delivery leadership, having led technical departments and large ecommerce accounts. Jim has owned the entire project lifecycle from presales and roadmaps through CI/CD-driven releases and support, and is experienced in recruiting, mentoring and scaling teams. Notably, he started as a freelance Drupal specialist and grew into roles shaping enterprise web strategy and managed hosting practices—bringing a rare combination of client-facing sales acumen and deep implementation experience. Based in England, he focuses on delivering quality at pace while embedding standards and engineering culture into organisations.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Media Computing, BSc Media Computing at University of Exeter
Peter Symonds College
French