Tacuma Bell
Software Engineer at the LEGO Group
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTacuma Bell is a pragmatic software engineer based in London with a decade of professional experience and five years of focused software development practice across startups, consultancy, and enterprise. He builds reliable, scalable payment and data systems using TypeScript, Node.js, React and AWS, recently contributing to LEGO’s checkout resilience and event-driven payment pipelines handling millions of transactions. Tacuma blends engineering rigor—TDD, observability, and XP practices—with product-minded collaboration, having led backend working groups and sprint ceremonies at Unmind. His linguistics background informs an interest in Language AI and machine translation, giving him a nuanced perspective on data modelling and natural language problems. Outside of engineering he founded Black Devs UK to connect and support Black software developers, reflecting a commitment to community-building as part of his professional identity. Practical, curious, and team-oriented, he thrives on turning ambiguous requirements into testable, production-grade solutions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Linguistics at California State University, NorthridgeAssociate of Arts (A.A.) Linguistics Japanese and French, Associate of Arts (A.A.) Linguistics Japanese and French at Glendale Community College
English, French
Stackoverflow
11reputation
3kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (30)
django-channels6
pycharm6
mongodb6
ruby-on-rails6
nodejs6
health6
trend6
mongoose6
electron6
battery5
react5
social-media5
open-source5
jekyll4
ruby4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
takumab/hello-ws-project
Jun 2020 - Dec 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 43 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
takumab/shoefit
Nov 2015 - Jul 2020
Shoe Fit: An online sneaker shop
Contributions:9 PRs, 103 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 8 months
reactsneakersneaker-shopjavascriptfit
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.