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Full stack engineer with 14 years shipping products to real users across Go, TypeScript, React, React Native, GraphQL, gRPC, and Postgres, currently delivering LLM-powered systems to production at Spaceship/eToro. I thrive at the customer-facing end of engineering—turning open scopes into shipped software, embedding with product and platform teams across Europe and APAC, and building internal AI platforms (e.g., an LLM wiki knowledge base and MCP interfaces for market data) with a code-quality mindset: specs, review, and tests.…Full stack engineer with 14 years shipping products to real users across Go, TypeScript, React, React Native, GraphQL, gRPC, and Postgres, currently delivering LLM-powered systems to production at Spaceship/eToro. I thrive at the customer-facing end of engineering—turning open scopes into shipped software, embedding with product and platform teams across Europe and APAC, and building internal AI platforms (e.g., an LLM wiki knowledge base and MCP interfaces for market data) with a code-quality mindset: specs, review, and tests.

Mike James

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, +1

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Full stack engineer with 14 years shipping products to real users across Go, TypeScript, React, React Native, GraphQL, gRPC, and Postgres, currently delivering LLM-powered systems to production at Spaceship/eToro. I thrive at the customer-facing end of engineering—turning open scopes into shipped software, embedding with product and platform teams across Europe and APAC, and building internal AI platforms (e.g., an LLM wiki knowledge base and MCP interfaces for market data) with a code-quality mindset: specs, review, and tests.…Full stack engineer with 14 years shipping products to real users across Go, TypeScript, React, React Native, GraphQL, gRPC, and Postgres, currently delivering LLM-powered systems to production at Spaceship/eToro. I thrive at the customer-facing end of engineering—turning open scopes into shipped software, embedding with product and platform teams across Europe and APAC, and building internal AI platforms (e.g., an LLM wiki knowledge base and MCP interfaces for market data) with a code-quality mindset: specs, review, and tests.

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Full stack engineer with 14 years shipping products to real users across Go, TypeScript, React, React Native, GraphQL, gRPC, and Postgres, currently delivering LLM-powered systems to production at Spaceship/eToro.

I thrive at the customer-facing end of engineering—turning open scopes into shipped software, embedding with product and platform teams across Europe and APAC, and building internal AI platforms (e.g., an LLM wiki knowledge base and MCP interfaces for market data) with a code-quality mindset: specs, review, and tests.

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Work Experience

Independent Contractor (Engineering) at Bower Systems Pty Ltd

February 1, 2026 - Present

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.

eToro AI Guild member at Spaceship / eToro

October 1, 2021 - Present

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.

Full Stack Engineer at Spaceship / eToro

October 1, 2021 - Present

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).

Full Stack Engineer / VP of Engineering (contractor to full-time) at MedApps Pty Ltd

October 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021

Joined as a contractor, then became full-time and later VP of Engineering. Built and shipped an offline-first iOS and Android app for doctors with fully searchable hospital content (guidelines, procedures, shift patterns, etc.), replacing existing apps in production.

React JS Full Stack Developer (Architect) at Thinkmill

January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2017

Agency work placing engineering inside startup engagements, including: Jerrick Media (SSR React publishing platform; MongoDB; KeystoneJS) and Admyt (ANPR-based automated carpark payments using React Native, Express, MongoDB, and SQL). Also contributed to KeystoneJS and the React Conference 2017 app.

Full Stack JS Developer (Lead Developer) at pebble{code}

January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2016

Lead developer on the ByBox Admin Dashboard (React, Redux, Cordova) controlling Bluetooth-enabled lockers. Also delivered client work including: AstraZeneca back-office (Angular, Oracle SQL, Hapi), Votes For Schools (React, Redux, AWS), and an internal WFH tool.

Full Stack JS Developer (Lead Developer) at Red Ant

January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2015

Lead developer on a Chanel sales-staff app used in House of Fraser and Boots (Backbone, Cordova, Hapi, Play Framework, AWS). Also developed Sell Smart for Three UK, an early-access IBM Watson in-store iPad app for sales staff.

Graduate to Developer at True Clarity

January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2014

Developed using C#, ASP.NET MVC4, Angular 1, and Sitecore for clients including Dyson.com (130+ sites on a single codebase), dysonrecall.com, WaterAid, and Aveva.