Kerry James
Managing Director at Bloafer Ltd
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKerry James is a managing director and hands-on solutions architect with 13 years of professional experience designing and securing wired and wireless network infrastructure, deploying MS/Linux servers, and building PHP web applications. He founded and leads Bloafer Ltd while previously shaping solutions and senior development at companies including Trustopia and Aspens Services. A pragmatic security-minded developer, Kerry contributes to legacy open-source projects like OpenCATS by cleaning up PHP backend issues and fixing deprecations, showing attention to maintainability as well as functionality. His background includes disciplined systems work from time in the British Army through roles managing IT for education and media organisations, giving him operational rigor and cross-domain empathy. Comfortable moving projects from older stacks to modern HTML5/CSS3 and hardened server deployments, he combines entrepreneurial leadership with deep, practical technical craft.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computing Electronics, Computing Electronics at Shenley Court Sixth Form College
English, German
Github Skills (6)
debug10
php10
code-optimization9
database7
databases7
database-api7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
opencats/OpenCATS
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
Applicant Tracking System (maintained code base)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 10 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kerry primarily focused on fixing bugs and addressing code quality issues within the OpenCATS applicant tracking system. Their contributions involved resolving strict standards warnings, including non-static method errors, and deprecation warnings related to PHP functions. They also made improvements to code to fix functional issues, such as a missing speech mark in a Postcode lookup function. The user's changes were focused on the PHP backend code base and involved addressing issues highlighted by static analysis or deprecated features.
recruitersapplicant-tracking-systemdjangophptracking
Bloafer/dust-php
Nov 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:9 releases, 38 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 11 months
template-enginetemplatetemplatingphptemplating-engine
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