James Abley Email & Phone Number

London, England, GB

Responsible for Data Engineering, Platform Operations, IT Support and Manufacturing and Shipping Engineering.* Introduced spend controls to manage OpEx and saved almost $1m* Introduced SLIs with SLOs; used these to identify and improve software latency and reliability which lead to 7-figure incremental EBDITDA per year* Invested in our incident analysis.

London, England, GB

Working with a variety of clients to help deliver the right thing faster and cheaper.I've helped my clients to:- migrate their Domain Name System (DNS) and Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, resulting in a faster web experience for their customers, and an associated significant uplift in revenue.- migrated from their old data centres to AWS. This was.

London, GB

London, GB

London, GB

London, GB

London, England, GB

US

London, England, GB

London, London, GB

• Helping digital at M&S safely, sustainably deliver business value at internet speed. This covered a few areas:1. Building things. I was responsible for:
• reviewing Continuous Integration and how to user version control better
• improving our software development and testing practices
• reducing the time-to-market with a better deployment pipeline2. Running things. I learned some things at M&S, but was also able to introduce new things, including:
• introducing modern web operations as defined by Etsy and other leading proponents
• mature organisational practices

London, GB

• Providing the next generation of digital services for UK citizens
• Built and operated GOV.UK
• Consulting architect who helped other departments across government succeed in the digital transformation. Worked with:
• The Intellectual Property Office
• The Skills Funding Agency
• HMRC

• Improved performance and scalability of the core product
• Delivered a variety of successful client projects involving different business and technical challenges, including transactional / shopping cart and content-focused projects

• Systems / Software Engineer responsible for building and running the Guardian mobile site (http://m.guardian.co.uk/) and other clients on a multi-tenanted mobile platform
• Technical lead for the BBC News iPad / iPhone application
• Grew the mobile internet traffic volume by a factor of 100 while improving platform stability and performance
• Planned and delivered a data centre migration with zero downtime

Jersey City, NJ, US

• Engineer responsible for delivering and operating our managed service offering which ran Disney and eBay mobile sites among others
• Consultant advising board-level stakeholders at the FT / Channel 4 about their mobile strategy
• Technical owner for design and implementation of the e-commerce platform product for mobile

Stockholm, SE

• Wrote the UI that managed the fund data for the website.
• Created a performance framework for a new fund trading platform and used that to deliver a cheaper and faster product.