John Girvin
Senior Developer at Access Elemental Social Prescribing
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Girvin is a seasoned Senior Developer from Belfast with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering resilient web, mobile and backend systems across startups and enterprise environments. His technical breadth spans Java, C/C++/Objective-C, PHP and SQL, and he’s built everything from 8-bit assembly games to high-throughput Java e‑commerce platforms that handled thousands of customers and multi‑million pound transactions. As a repeat founder and former technical lead/architect, he blends pragmatic engineering with an obsession for elegance, simplicity and efficiency while keeping a close eye on business outcomes. He’s led infrastructure and architecture at Sports Fusion, worked in senior engineering roles at Oracle and WANdisco, and now contributes to social prescribing technology at Access Elemental. A practical tinkerer at heart — “real programmer with screwdriver” — he pairs deep systems knowledge with a history of mentoring teams and shipping production-grade systems.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. (hons.), Computer Science, B.Sc. (hons.), Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast
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Github Skills (107)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
johngirvin/Kore
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:21 pushes in 4 months
gamedevhardware-abstractiongame-librarygame-developmenthardware
johngirvin/KoolBox
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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