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About James

Career

[Jan 2016 - Present] Head of Engineering, Access Anywhere — Nasuni

• Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team delivering our enterprise software to hundreds of international clients.
  • Teams cover Web, API, Infrastructure, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and integrated QA team.
  • Established and running an effective Scrum team to deliver software consistently.
• Responsible for overall software design, implementation and delivery.
• Promoting and building best practices within the team.
  • Increasing developer-owned QA processes.
  • Establing automated and reliable build processes producing consistent and clean software artifacts.
  • Building out established team workflows.
• Hands-on technical skills.
  • Active contributor to technical designs and discussions.
  • Owning and delivering infrastructural changes to support the team.
  • Working with the team to debug, diagnose and resolve often complex, low-level, and cross-team challenges
• Roadmap, delivery and timeline management and accountability.
• Technical debt management.
  • Striving to ensure that software components are actively maintained. For example, focusing on moving monolithic components into container (Docker) services.
  • Forward-looking improvements covering software deprecations like CentOS and replacemenet planning.
• Cloud platforms
  • Working daily with various On-Cloud and On-Premises environments, including AWS, GCP and Azure.
• Customer facing
  • Delivered customer presentations, webinars, conference speeches.
  • Architecture sessions with customers and delivering professional services-based installations.
• Innovation and product development
  • Seeing through design and implementation and subsequent hardening
• Support
  • Integration point and facilitator between the. Business Support function and Engineering teams. Triage, tracking and point of contact across engineering escalations.
• Post-acquisition (June 2022)
  • Ensuring engineering team remains productive, whilst working to integrate Storage Made Easy with Nasuni post the succesful acquisition.
  • Delivered software release avalable to Nasuni customers 60-days post acquistion.
  • Ongoing integration of products, process and teams.
  • Continuation of existing responsibilities.

Tech stacks:

• Hypervisors: VMWare, HyperV, KVM, AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Server: PHP / Golang / JS / React / HTML / CSS / Coffeescript / Python / Perl / Java / MariaDB / Apache HTTP / NGINX / HAProxy / NoSQL / Apache Solr / QUIC / File Protocols (SMB, NFS, FTP, SFTP, FTPS, WebDAV), Public Cloud API consumptions (e.g. S3, Dropbox, etc), Serving REST and RPC based APIs, OpenAPI, Redis, Git, RPMs.
• Desktop: Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, Delpi, Fuse, Java, Active Directory, SAML, OpenID, OAuth, Message Queues (RabbitMQ)
• Mobile: iOS SDKs, Android SDKs, Java, Swift, Objective-C, Bitrise.
• Infrastructure: Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions.
• QA: Zephyr, TestRail, BDD, Cucumber, Unit Tests, Integration Tests, Ruby, RSPEC, Selenuium, API Testing

[Jun 2013 - Dec 2015] Lead Developer, DevNet - Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (PlayStation)

• Newly formed team tasked with builing out an SSO platform to unify 10+ SCE individual platforms.
• Discussing requirements between various development teams, establishing requirements, and agreeing upon deliverables.
• Fully tested with automated testing.
• SSO implemented against OpenID standards.
• Cross-development team training for integration purposes.
• Microservice / service-oriented based architecture.

Tech stacks:

• PHP, Mongo, Redis, MariaDB, Symfony, Docker, OpenAPI, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL,

[Jun 2011 - Dec 2012] Lead Support Engineer, PlayStation Mobile - Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (PlayStation)

• Supported the launch of the new product, PlayStation Mobile (pre and post launch)
• Point of contact with Developers who were building and producing titles for the platform.
• Triaging and aftering community questions. Engaging with core engineering to resolve other questions.
• Regional subject expert, often delivering presentations and demos to C-level executives.

Tech stacks:

• C#, C++, Gaming, GPU programming, Mobile app development.

Software Consultant — Freelance

• Proving software consultantcy services to businesses.