A Brighton based full stack engineer and bass innovator who runs four companies at once. Web, apps, data and AI on one side, sensory products, custom trading card printing and bass led rock on the other.

Autistic and ADHD together. James was diagnosed at 31 and built Goghini out of what he discovered.

Bad, but trying to get better. His chess.com profile is sitting at 572 ELO at the time of writing. Calm under pressure does not seem to extend to the board.

Tool, and that is not up for negotiation. Enter Shikari run a close second, he has over fifty of their records on vinyl. When he wants to play bass along to something it is usually Vukovi.

He completed every improv course at Boom Chicago and turns up at open mic comedy nights. James loves performing comedy.

Fifteen years in tech sitting alongside twenty-four years playing bass. The overlap turns into things most engineers would not bother building, like a phase locked multi mic rig that splits one bass into parallel sub, low and high layers. It all folds into a free plugin called Bass Better-er, and you can hear the results over at Box of Rules.

Two cats. Roast and Rebel. Neither contributes to the codebase.

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