Sam James
Principal Magento Engineer at Sam James
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam James is a Principal Magento / Adobe Commerce Engineer with 11 years’ experience building secure, high-performance eCommerce platforms and operating as the senior technical escalation for Magento at Big Eye Deers. He blends deep full‑stack Magento development with platform engineering, SRE, and DevOps—authoring custom modules, zero‑downtime CI/CD pipelines, and cost‑efficient autoscaling infrastructure. Sam has a track record of driving reliability (99.99% uptime), responsible disclosure and mitigation of major Magento vulnerabilities, and building emergency patching frameworks used in real incidents. He contributes to open-source Magento tooling and maintains a personal R&D channel where he prototypes self‑healing deployments, developer DX tools, and security automation. Based in Cardiff, he routinely bridges application, infrastructure, and security layers while remaining an individual contributor focused on practical, long‑term maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
Michaelston Community CollegeIT & Computing, Computer Science, IT & Computing, Computer Science at Cardiff & Vale College
Github Skills (142)
windows10
bash10
adobe10
markdown10
mercadopago10
linux10
magento10
user-guide10
payment10
amazon-pay10
site-generator10
shell10
cli10
console10
magento-extension10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SamJUK/radio
Dec 2017 - Oct 2020
Basic webpage that allows for easy playback of a bunch of Radio Stations
Contributions:44 commits, 30 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 10 months
radio-stationsjavascriptplaybackstationsradio
SamJUK/OrbBot
Jul 2017 - Oct 2020
Modular Discord IRC Bot using Discord.JS
Contributions:11 PRs, 45 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 3 months
irc-botherokudiscord-jsdiscordbot
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