Hello 👋 I’m James
I'm currently working as a Frontend Engineer in London.

Hello! I’m James, a Software Engineer from London with 6+ years of commercial experience building high-quality, scalable applications across web and mobile platforms. My journey into software development began early when I received my first computer at age 11 and became fascinated with understanding how systems work - taking apart hardware, learning system administration, exploring security, and teaching myself programming languages like C++. This early technical curiosity and hands-on experimentation eventually led me to pursue software engineering professionally.

I specialize in release engineering and full-stack development, combining CI/CD expertise with hands-on feature development in React, TypeScript, & Python and modern web technologies. My experience includes revolutionizing deployment workflows to ensure multiple weekly releases across bespoke client platforms, implementing automated quality gates, and actively contributing to both greenfield and legacy codebases. I've led comprehensive testing initiatives that dramatically improved code coverage standards while delivering measurable improvements including 40% gains in application performance and significant infrastructure cost reductions through architectural modernisation.

I have also designed and led a comprehensive workshop on modern testing practices, which resulted in a dramatic increase in code coverage from 13% to 95% on newly worked on apps due to my tests forming the new template and gold standard, setting a new threshold for quality in our development practices.

What drives me is solving complex technical challenges and building solutions that make a real impact. I'm passionate about continuous learning and staying current with emerging technologies. To deepen my expertise in areas like AI and LLMs - knowledge gaps I couldn't adequately address through work alone - I returned to university to pursue an MSc in Computer Science. I'm currently on track to achieve a First with a 92% unit average.

Feel free to explore my portfolio and get in touch - I'd love to discuss how we can work together on your next project.