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Engineering Leadership
Years of experience in full-stack engineering and team leadership; A special interest in delivery optimisation.
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My name is John James but my friends call me Jay. Nearly 20 years of design, development and delivery. Embracing new technologies to benefit everyone.
I have a broad range of experience and skills however these are the areas that interest me most.
Years of experience in full-stack engineering and team leadership; A special interest in delivery optimisation.
2025 saw a turning point in the quality and reliability of AI coding tools when used properly.
Technical direction and plain english guidance for greenfield and brownfield projects.
Career rendered as commits. Some refactors. A few rewrites. No force-pushes.
Notes, essays, and the occasional post-mortem. New things land here before they end up anywhere else.
Things I shipped recently. Most are open source. The closed ones are listed because they paid the rent.
Lightweight tray app and floating widget that surfaces ai coding-agent usage — percentages, token totals, reset windows, and burn-rate forecasts. Local-only telemetry; no prompt content, credentials, or dashboard scraping.
Two-sentence description of the project. Replace this with what makes it interesting.
I read everything. Brief or rude - both fine. Just say what you want.
I'm open to consulting briefs and select advisory work. If you've got a hard problem - I want to hear about it.