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Engineering leader building real time 3D platforms, cloud architecture and high performing engineering teams.

I'm James, Head of Engineering with a background in physics and a career built hands on, from founding engineer to technical leadership through prototype, Seed and into growth phase. I've scaled engineering teams from zero, owned platform architecture across Unity/WebGL, Unreal Engine and cloud, and sat at the senior leadership table through multiple funding rounds and grants. My work sits at the intersection of complex technical problems and the people and processes needed to solve them reliably.

Currently open to Head of Engineering and Director of Engineering roles at growth stage companies.

20+

Projects launched
Across games, fashion,
mobile and web platforms

10+

Years building software
5+ years in technical leadership

Full Stack

Unity/WebGL, Unreal Engine,
cloud, and backend systems

Experience

Digital clothing, made simple

Genera is an easy to use, intuitive digital clothing design platform, straight in your browser. Become a creator in minutes, monetise your designs and elevate your next title. With hundreds of professionally prepared, optimised garments, ready for animation, clothing creation has never been simpler.


GENERA LABS | Digital clothing customisation engine

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Corporation Pop

Making companies look good for more than 30 years.

The digital agency in Manchester making apps, websites and AR that people come back to. They offer a wide range of digital services, including website development, mobile app creation (both native and cross-platform), AR/VR experiences, UX/UI design, and brand identity development.


Corporation Pop

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Sumdog Ltd

The number one math and spelling learning app

Sumdog delivers highly engaging personalized practice for math and spelling, both in-school and at home. The adaptive learning engine uses the outcomes of diagnostic tests to tailor questions to suit each child’s unique learning level, Providing a personalized learning experience.


Make learning fun with Sumdog!

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Skills

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Unreal Engine 5

Project Taurus

A Nanite powered, post modern real time strategy prototype built in Unreal Engine 5 Blueprints. Built to demonstrate squad based AI, dynamic pathfinding, volumetric fog of war, spatial analysis and tactical control systems in changing 3D environments.

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Unreal Engine 5

Project Gambit

This Unreal Engine 5 dice game, built primarily in C++,  brings to life a medieval casino dice game with a 90's cartoon flair. Built to demonstrate turn based game architecture, dice simulation, probability driven AI decision making, and risk/reward evaluation in a compact playable format

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Backend & Cloud

Cloud Projects

A collection of cloud based projects, deployments, pipelines and automations.

Let’s talk

Interested in discussing a role, project, or technical challenge? I’m happy to connect about
engineering leadership, 3D platforms, cloud deployments, and product focused software development.