James Watling
Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJames Watling is a seasoned software leader and hands-on engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling web and mobile products, currently based in Oregon. As founding CTO of EarlyDay he raised over $4M, launched in multiple US metros, and led the startup through acquisition by Wonderschool, where he now oversees Provider Experience and multiple product teams. He brings deep Ruby on Rails backend expertise paired with heavy React and React Native experience, and has shipped blockchain-enabled reputation systems at Hub, including work tied to a $20M token sale. Adept at hiring, people management and translating business goals into delivered features, he’s run engineering teams across time zones and cultures and driven hiring initiatives that scaled teams rapidly. Beyond product leadership he contributes to open-source testing efforts (BDD/Cucumber) on notable projects like Loomio, reflecting a pragmatic focus on quality and automation.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
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Github Skills (16)
cucumber10
behavior-driven-development10
capybara10
behave10
bdd10
test-automation10
ruby9
rspec7
redux6
alarm6
ios6
javascript6
validation6
react-native6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
loomio/loomio
Sep 2012 - Sep 2012
Loomio is a collaborative decision making tool
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:James's contributions primarily involve writing and modifying Cucumber tests for the Loomio application. They focused on testing login functionality, including various scenarios such as successful logins, incorrect credentials, and other edge cases. The commits demonstrate the implementation of step definitions and the use of features to define test cases, showing expertise in behavior-driven development (BDD) principles.
decision-makingcollaborativedecision
JamesWatling/guava-cal
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 20 days
reactcalendarjavascriptreact-jsevent-calendar
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