Hi there, I'm James 👋

• 💼 I’m currently as a Software Engineer at Disney+ in Manchester, UK. Some things I've been working on:

  • Internal experimentation programme, using Functional Programming - written with Scala, ZIO, Doobie, Caliban, etc.
  • GitHub Actions for CI/CD, previews, extra checks etc.
  • Static sites (Hugo, Docusaurus) for runbooks & documentation

• 🌱 I’m currently learning Elixir/Phoenix (and a bit of Tailwind CSS!)

• ⚡ Fun fact: 我会说一点中文（五年以前开始。。！）

• 📣 Check out my "Digital Garden" blog

• 📫 Reach me at LinkedIn

Here's my favourite personal projects I've worked on:

• 📚 A website powered by Spring & Kotlin that turns your stories into language learning "Graded Reader books"
• 🗃️ A Java CLI tool for generating Anki/Memrise/Pleco flashcards for Chinese study - recently refactored with a few JDk 14 features
• 📶 Turn your phone into a hotspot automatically with PowerShell - great when you have an ethernet but no Wi-Fi!
• 🔢A little game written with WinForms C# to practice your mental hexadecimal->decimal maths