About

Engineering leader. Builder. Mentor.

Full-stack engineer with 10+ years of professional experience building production software and leading engineering teams.

10+
Years professional experience
50+
Enterprise projects delivered
James Levine
What I do

Full-stack engineer. Technical leader.

I work directly with founders, business owners, and engineering teams — designing and building websites, custom applications, and the architectures behind them. I bring enterprise-grade rigour from years inside AWS, Reach plc, ChargedUp and Ticketmaster to projects of every size.

At AWS I delivered full-stack projects for enterprise customers across media, healthcare, finance and aviation, and contributed production code to AWS's core products (CLI, CDK, Amplify, IAM, SAM). I now apply that experience independently.

React & Next.jsReact NativeNode.js & PythonTypeScriptAWS · Lambda · BedrockCDK · Terraform
Career

Where I've worked

Amazon Web Services
Reach plc
ChargedUp
Ticketmaster

Spent years inside enterprise engineering teams before going independent: full-stack projects at AWS for customers in media, healthcare, finance and aviation; mobile and web apps at Reach plc for the UK's largest news publisher; engineering lead at ChargedUp through a COVID-era pivot; and contract front-end work at Ticketmaster shipping accessible features to 17 countries.

Spoken at
AWS Summitsre:Inventre:InforceIBCCustomer workshopsIndustry meet-ups
Background

Before tech

Before software engineering I founded three startups and held sales leadership roles across health-tech, marketing consultancy and SaaS. I managed teams of 3–10 to outcomes including a successful exit, seed investment, and £200K revenue.

That entrepreneurial background is why I think about engineering in business terms first — the technical work serves a customer, a roadmap, and a company that needs the work to land. Code is a means, not the goal.

Let's talk

Build something together.

Open to engineering leadership and full-stack roles. Always happy to chat about engineering, community building, or career transitions into tech.