Jim Wilkinson
Engineering Manager at LocalStack
Lancaster, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Wilkinson is an experienced engineering manager and former lead software engineer with over two decades building high-performance, highly available telecoms systems and 11 years in senior engineering roles. He has led teams of up to 12 engineers, acted as product owner for agile teams, and driven major scalability projects—once redesigning systems to ingest >1PB/day and delivering a 10x vertical scale improvement and 5,000x search throughput gains. At Microsoft he cut costs by 50% while enabling 10x scale for an Azure Operator Insights lighthouse customer and ran 24/7 incident management for production telemetry. Jim is a people-first leader who prioritises psychological safety, neurodiversity and coaching, and runs a team book club to drive continuous learning. Outside work he’s community-minded—once leading volunteers to deliver village-wide Gigabit FTTP—and keeps fit through badminton, running and family workouts.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys, Physics, 2:1, MPhys, Physics, 2:1 at University of OxfordLancaster Royal Grammar School
Github Skills (11)
serverless10
aws10
continuous-integration10
localstack10
developer-tools10
python10
aws-cloud10
testing10
server-client9
markup-language4
documentation1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Metaswitch/sas-client
Feb 2015 - Dec 2017
Service Assurance Server client library
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 comments in 2 years 10 months
server-client
jw2/localstack-sns-ai
Dec 2025 - Dec 2025
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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