Sam James
Principal Magento Engineer at Sam James
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam James is a Principal Magento / Adobe Commerce Engineer with 11 years’ experience building secure, high-performance eCommerce platforms and operating as the senior technical escalation for Magento at Big Eye Deers. He blends deep full‑stack Magento development with platform engineering, SRE, and DevOps—authoring custom modules, zero‑downtime CI/CD pipelines, and cost‑efficient autoscaling infrastructure. Sam has a track record of driving reliability (99.99% uptime), responsible disclosure and mitigation of major Magento vulnerabilities, and building emergency patching frameworks used in real incidents. He contributes to open-source Magento tooling and maintains a personal R&D channel where he prototypes self‑healing deployments, developer DX tools, and security automation. Based in Cardiff, he routinely bridges application, infrastructure, and security layers while remaining an individual contributor focused on practical, long‑term maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
Michaelston Community CollegeIT & Computing, Computer Science, IT & Computing, Computer Science at Cardiff & Vale College
Github Skills (122)
windows10
bash10
adobe10
markdown10
linux10
magento10
amazon-pay10
shell10
cli10
console10
magento-extension10
bsd10
vue10
android10
magento2-extension-free10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SamJUK/heartrate-sensor
Jun 2023 - Jul 2026
BLE Heart Rate Broadcast Receiver
Contributions:8 PRs, 9 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 1 month
broadcast-receiverblebluetoothbtlefitness
SamJUK/m2-module-cache-debounce
Nov 2024 - Jul 2026
Simple Magento 2 extension to debounce FPC flushes to a schedule
Contributions:3 releases, 5 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 8 months
debouncemagento-extensioncachemagentomagento2
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