Jimmy Cann
API Development Lead at Ironstar
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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SeniorJimmy Cann is an API-focused engineering leader with a decade of experience building production-grade services in Go and Node.js, currently co-founding and leading API development at Ironstar in Melbourne. He designs resilient cloud-native systems on AWS and Kubernetes, having driven microservice architectures and integrations across fintech and large enterprise platforms (ANZ, Latitude, NAB). Jimmy has a strong track record of modernising stacks and developer experience—moving frontends to Next.js, replacing brittle E2E tests with Cypress, and enabling local dev for complex API portals. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and technical lead, he pairs operational reliability (high-availability APIs, 99.9% SLAs) with pragmatic product delivery. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical direction and practical refactors that accelerate iteration without sacrificing stability.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English, Japanese
Github Skills (153)
python10
testing10
windows10
css-in-js10
styled-components10
declarative10
rest-api10
swagger-node10
javascript10
linux10
rest10
lambda10
js10
developer-tools10
continuous-integration10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wearetheroyals/headless-wp-starter-gcp
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:30 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
doshii-io/doshii-sdk
Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
A NodeJS wrapper for the Doshii Partner API
Contributions:44 commits, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year
apijavascriptpartnernodejsnodejs-wrapper
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