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 (19)
continuous-integration10
testing10
aws-lambda10
aws10
lambda10
developer-tools10
aws-cloud9
localstack9
python9
serverless-framework9
serverless9
haml6
liquid5
markup-language5
markup5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
Metaswitch/sas-client
Feb 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 comments in 2 years 10 months
client-libraryjavaclient-serverassurance
localstack/localstack
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
serverless-cloudpythonaws-cloudtestingserverless
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