James Wainwright
Senior Software Engineer at Cova
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolJames Wainwright is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building scalable full-stack systems and shipping mission-critical infrastructure across fintech, proptech, and SaaS. Currently unlocking AI for insurance brokers at Cova, he blends product obsession with pragmatic engineering to deliver secure, reliable systems at scale. He has led architectural shifts—introducing Feature Sliced Design, monorepos and domain-driven practices—and founded cross-team guilds to spread those improvements organization-wide. James has repeatedly owned end-to-end delivery from GraphQL-backed APIs and payment systems to mobile CI/CD and video streaming platforms, often solving tricky auth and deployment challenges under tight timelines. His background shows a pattern of turning prototype POCs into company standards and driving measurable business impact, and he thrives on collaborating with founders and engineers to make product work 100x better. Based in Queensland, Australia, he pairs a Computer Science degree with a practical, security-minded approach to building AI-enabled products.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of software develpment Software Engineering, Diploma of software develpment Software Engineering at HolmesglenBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Swinburne University of Technology
English
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
onesignal10
google-maps10
recording10
terraform-registry10
nodejs10
android-image10
oauth10
editor10
sequelizejs10
react-applications10
mobile10
react-navigation10
microsoft10
facebook10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jamesone/community-social-media-server
Apr 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
pluralcom/react-relay-network-layer
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
ReactRelayNetworkLayer with middlewares and query batching for Relay Classic.
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
queryreactrelaybatchingrelay-classic
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