Jim Woods
Lead Software Engineer at Kraken
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Woods is a Lead Software Engineer in Bristol with 12 years’ experience building developer-facing tooling and production systems across Python, Go, JavaScript, and cloud infrastructure. Currently leading Kraken’s Support Site Tooling team, he focuses on creating the internal platforms other engineers rely on to deliver customer-facing products. His background spans delivery-scale logistics at Zenstores, microservices and DevOps at Fresh8 Gaming, and architecture and deployment automation using Ansible and Terraform at Omni Digital. Jim blends hands-on engineering with team leadership and cross-functional translation, turning business goals into pragmatic technical workstreams. Notably, he’s focused on generating and curating high-quality LLM training data—a niche that ties his platform expertise to emerging AI workflows. He brings a practical, systems-minded approach to scaling developer experiences and operational reliability.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Multimedia Computing, Bachelor of Science (BS) Multimedia Computing at University of the West of England
Github Skills (68)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dammitjim/badfeed
Jan 2019 - May 2021
RSS without the bullshit, gitlab mirror.
Contributions:11 PRs, 26 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 4 months
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dammitjim/dotfiles
Mar 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
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