@asgrim - James Titcumb

“James is one of the most passionate and talented programmers I've ever met.”

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Who am I?

Hi there! I'm James Titcumb. I've been a software developer since 2002. Here's some current facts about me:

I am a freelance consultant developer under the Roave team banner, where I work with an amazing team of developers.
I am experienced in PHP, C, Java, Rust, JS/TS, and much more.
I speak at user groups and conferences; see all the talks I'm doing and have done.
I am on the Laminas and Mezzio Technical Steering Committee (previously Zend Framework/Expressive).
I love contributing to open source software, such as PHP, Laminas, Mezzio, Doctrine and more.
I help maintain Roave's open source libraries, such as Better Reflection, Don't, Backward Compatibility Check, and more.
I am the lead maintainer for the Browser Capabilities Project.
I live in East Yorkshire, UK and I'm married, with 2 children.

In the past...

I founded and ran the PHP South Coast conference for three years.
I founded and ran the PHP Hampshire PHP user group for six years.
I was the Community Corner columnist for php[architect] magazine from July 2017 to December 2018.
I have written three articles for php[architect] magazine (Apr 2015, Nov 2015, Jan 2017)
I was the technical editor for RabbitMQ in Depth by Gavin M. Roy, a book from Manning Publications.
I was a technical editor for I'm British So I Know How to Queue, a RabbitMQ book by Stuart Grimshaw.

As a professional software consultant with many years of experience, I can offer many consultancy services to clients, including:

You can get in touch with me the following ways: