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James Millner

About

Hi 👋 #

My name is James Millner, and I’m currently living in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK but have always lived in Yorkshire (insert yorkshire chant).

I’m a motivated Software Developer and enjoy tinkering within the Software Engineering space as often as I can. I love cycling, after taking up the sport in 2018 it’s thoroughly taken over my spare time. It’s also given me a huge appreciation for West Yorkshire, although it is very hilly! ⛰️ Since 2018 I’ve clocked over 10,000KM in distance, and counting!

Ah Huddersfield
Some lovely Huddersfield hills, and the trusty stead!

Finally, I also suffer from a serious contagious love for Dad Jokes and Puns. If I can slip them into a morning stand-up - I will.

I have an async joke.

I promise it will be good.

Fun Facts #

  • Unfortunately not the legendary Liverpudlian footballer James Milner
  • I was a Scout for around 6 years and was lucky enough to attend the 22nd World Scout Jamboree 🇸🇪 🌍
    • As a result I own the same coat as the King of Sweden!
    • Although he might not have kept it for as long as I have
  • Co-Founder of Leeds Kotlin User Group 🦉
  • Co-Founder of DartsNow, an Online Darts Platform 🎯

Favorite Topics #

Currently, I am very interested in Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kafka and Software Engineering in general.

I’m also very keen in the world of DevOps and Containerization. Fascinated by SoC computing and successfully operated a K3s.io raspberry pi cluster, with monitoring support via Prometheus Operator - By Carlos Eduardo - Highly recommend checking out this repo if you intend to do the same.

Experience #

I’m currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Sky Betting & Gaming, based in Leeds.

Rather than duplicate my experience on here, my full professional experience can be found over on LinkedIn

Skills #

A lot of my experience is predominantly around the backend JVM space, in Java & Kotlin. Below though is a list of tools and technologies that I have experience with:

Programming / Scripting Languages #

Kotlin • Java • JavaScript • Typescript • React • GoLang • Bash Scripting

Frameworks #

Spring Boot • Micronaut

Operating Systems #

MacOS • Ubuntu • Debian • Windows, especially WSL

Cloud Computing and Automation #

AWS • GCloud • Digital Ocean • Terraform • Cloudformation • AWS CDK • Chef • Ansible

Event Driven Tools #

Kafka • RabbitMQ • ActiveMQ • SQS • SNS

Monitoring and Observability #

Prometheus • Grafana

Database Technologies #

MySQL • Postgres • MongoDB • Cassandra

Other Tools #

Kubernetes • Docker • Git • Makefiles • Intellij IDEA • VSCode • Atom

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