Jesse James

Lead Full Stack Engineer

About

A full stack engineer with over 16 years of commercial agency & startup experience, currently leading development on AI products, integrating LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google into production applications. I enjoy problem-solving and building robust & scalable applications which meet project goals. I am confident working on my own or as part of a large team with members from different disciplines; Design, UX, UI, Client services, etc.

Experience

Lead Full Stack Engineer at Curation.
Previously with Partners Capital, Dye & Durham Corporation, Sky, uMotif, Bud, BBH London and Albion London, among others.
Studied Computing (Internet Computing) at University of Westminster.
Full history on LinkedIn

Selected Work

Curation
Full Stack, AI Integration

HeadCraft
Full Stack, AI Integration

Partners Capital
Full Stack, Finance

Businesscomparison.com
Backend, API Integration

Sky Sports
Backend, Frontend

uMotif
Backend, Frontend, API Integration

Bud
Backend, API design

KFC
Backend, API design

Skills/Focus

PHP

Laravel

SlimPHP

Python

FastAPI

Flask

LLM Integration

Prompt Engineering

OpenAI API

Anthropic Claude API

Google Gemini

Vercel AI SDK

JavaScript

ReactJS

NextJS

VueJS

HTML5

CSS

SCSS/SASS

Responsive design & development

OOP

REST API design

API Integration

Unit Testing

MySQL/NoSQL

AWS

DevOps

LAMP/LEMP

Git

Version Control

JIRA

WordPress