James Stidard

about

Graduated in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Plymouth University.

Decade of experience working with Python - on predominantly backend web servers. I've additionally been fortunate enough to take roles where I've been able to lead, spec, architect, and design data-models across a variety of projects.

Most notably in my career has been my work with Wave Venture in developing a software product to enable off-shore energy developers to analyse and optimise their renewable projects from the perspective of the hydrodynamics, IO&M strategy, and the financial cash flow. This product takes the form of a desktop client, accompanied by a web-service which is able to distribute the required simulations across a compute cluster.

Outside of programming, my hobbies are climbing, cycling, and general tinkering around the house.

personal portfolio

Below are some of my public personal projects; a full catalogue can be found on my GitHub Profile.

Application

Gurl A GUI for Hurl. My exploration in how much AI vibe-coding can handle.

Framework

Rune ECS A modest ECS (entity-component-system) framework written in, and for, Lua.

CLI Utility

mzo A command-line application for interfacing with a Monzo bank account.

Game

Dixtionary A web-based multiplayer game, used to explore GraphQL, WebSockets, and Redis.

Plugin

asdf-qt A plugin for the asdf command-line utility that can be used to manage installs of Qt on the host machine.

Plugin

sanic-envconfig A small plugin for declaring and casting environment variables for Sanic projects.

professional history

Present

OKKO Health In this role, I have focused on processes, workflows, environments, and CI automations. Along with that, I also get my hands dirty in the stack: predominantly a Python Django server, and a Flutter (iOS & Android) client.

2017 - 2025

Wave Venture I worked on Wave Venture's software services, which offer simulations, optimisations, and analysis for wave energy farms, leveraging distributed computing.

2015 - 2017

A2Z Cloud This role primarily consisted of full-stack web development. These mainly used a Vue.js front-end along with a WebSocketed connection to a Tornado Web Server.

2013 - 2014

Plymouth University I spent my placement year developing two iOS applications with an emphasis on UX and offline availability. These applications were mainly built on top of Apple's core frameworks using the Objective-C language.

academic history

2011 - 2015

First-Class Honours in Computer SciencePlymouth University

2008 - 2010

A Levels in Geography, ICT, & PhysicsClevedon School

contact

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