Mike James

Runs a contracting vehicle delivering end-to-end product engineering—from cold discovery through PRD/prototype/commercial proposal—taking client engagements through discovery and into commercial readiness. Most recently developed a React + Supabase prototype for rate-driven production scheduling for a timber manufacturer, including management dashboard, factory-floor TV board, and operator mobile view, and produced the commercial proposal.

Embeds with product and platform teams across Europe and APAC to contribute to internal LLM initiatives and shared AI tooling, including building internal LLM platforms and interfaces for product teams and engineering stakeholders.

Builds and ships complex production backend services and applications supporting managed funds, superannuation, and US stock trading, where the backend helps manage $1.5B+ in FUM. Works across Go, gRPC, Postgres, React Native, React, Expo, GraphQL, and pub/sub background processing. Key contributions include: shipping an internal LLM wiki that ingests Slack/Confluence/transcripts and exposes it via MCP; building an MCP interface for CapIQ market data; leading GraphQL service-layer contract design in Go; and delivering customer-facing trading and onboarding improvements. Also supports multiple domains (KYC/AML, banking integrations, Bloomberg, trading via Alpaca).