About
Hi, I’m James Wade. When I’m not building software, teams or products, I like to read and write about software engineering, personal development and business practices.
Positions Held
- Software Engineering Manager @ Krystal, Remote, UK
- Systems Development Manager @ Bet365, Stoke/Manchester
- Head of Engineering @ Spectre/Street Group, Manchester
- Web Development Manager @ easyfundraising, Lichfield, Staffordshire
- Group IT Manager / Web Developer @ Randles/Stoneacre Motor Group, Stoke/Doncaster
- Chairman @ Potteries Hackspace
- Director @ Wavemaker
- Founder @ Phurix Web Hosting
Articles else where
- DevOps Best Practices
- Articles on Dev.to
- Articles on Medium
Projects
- DeadUseful - A domain lookup service
- HM2K - Projects included eTicket , Simple SOCKS5 Server for Perl , OpenCart, PHP , pisg, Wordpress
- Suzuki4u - An online forum for UK Suzuki owners
Contributions
In the press
Talks (and Workshops)
- A Brief Overview of DevOps
- Introduction to Test Automation
- Guidelines for Test Automation
- An introduction to Test Automation using Laravel
- An introduction to Serverless
- Pragmatism Workshop
- Guidelines for APIs
- Improving Communication
- Career Paths
- Conway’s Law
- Scrum, Agile and Lean
Podcasts
- Venturi’s Voice - Learning to Scale Up from a Developer to Head of Engineering
- NorthWestify Podcast - getting into tech
Social media
- Follow on Twitter @jpswade
- Follow on GitHub jpswade
- Follow on Instagram jpswade
- Follow on LinkedIn jpswade