James Weaver

Experience

Bella & Duke · Edinburgh

The UK's top-rated raw pet food brand, making natural meals, treats and supplements for dogs and cats.

VP Engineering

Nov '26 – present

Current role.

Marks & Spencer · London

British multinational retailer of clothing, food, and financial services.

Head of Software Engineering (Customer Domain)

Jan '26 – Oct '26

Led engineering for M&S Financial Services and Customer Platforms, including Customer Identity.

Engineering Manager (Online)

Oct '24 – Jan '26

Owned the marksandspencer.com buying journey and led migrations to Dynatrace and GraphQL Federation.

Oddbox · London

Sustainable grocery subscription service reducing food waste by rescuing wonky and surplus produce.

Director of Technology

Jul '22 – Dec '23

Launched the Oddbox shop and customisable boxes, and built technology for sourcing, packing, and fulfilment.

Head of Technology

Feb '21 – Jul '22

Grew the data, engineering, and product teams, and re-platformed Oddbox subscriptions on headless Chargebee.

Graze (Unilever) · London

UK snack brand and subscription service, acquired by Unilever in 2019.

Head of Engineering

Oct '19 – Feb '21

Launched Graze's subscription and eCommerce platform into Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands. Developed white-label platforms for other Unilever brands.

Engineering Manager / Technical Lead / Developer

Sep '16 – Oct '19

Led the Magento-to-Shopify Plus migration for the UK, US, and Ireland, and the Contentful blog rebuild that won the 2018 UK Blog Awards.

Unii Ltd. · London

Social network startup for university students, and viral video-sharing app Fling.

Head of Web Team

Aug '15 – Aug '16

Led the web and iOS teams, migrating Fling to Swift and building Uniicard, a MapKit-powered discount-discovery map.

Software Developer

Nov '14 – Aug '15

Built developer tooling for Unii and Fling, including a cross-org issue tracker, monitoring dashboards, and a beta build distribution tool.

Worcestershire College · Remote

Further education college formed from the merger of NEW College and Worcester College of Technology.

Software Developer

Jan '14 – Aug '14

Built the college's 2014-15 course directory and website, and integrated video streaming into its Moodle eLearning platform.

Durham University · Durham

Russell Group research university in the north-east of England.

Software Developer (Summer Placement)

Aug '12 – Oct '12

Built a public events API in PHP and Laravel, plus an internal app for admins to manage and approve community events.

NEW College · Worcestershire

Further education college in Worcestershire, known for its award-winning eLearning provision.

Software Developer (eLearning)

Jun '04 – Oct '10

Led development of the college's award-winning eLearning platform and contributed to the Moodle open-source project.

IT Technician

Dec '03 – Jun '04

Provided desktop support across Mac and Windows, plus server and network administration across Mac and Linux.

Freelance

Ugly Drinks

Better-for-you sparkling water and soft drinks brand.

Freelance Shopify Developer

Nov '19 – Aug '20

Unified the UK and US Shopify themes, replaced jQuery PDPs with React, and built CI/CD tooling to deploy both stores.

Inidus

Digital health company building OpenEHR tooling for NHS developers.

Freelance Software Developer

Oct '17 – Feb '18

Built secure OpenEHR apps for NHS developers using React, Docker, and Java.

Paddle

SaaS payments and billing platform for software companies.

Freelance Web Developer

Jul '17 – Sep '17

Rebranded and rebuilt Paddle's marketing website and developer documentation sites on a modern Jekyll and Contentful stack.

The Apothecary

Portfolio site for a London-based designer.

Freelance Web Developer

Jan '16 – Mar '16

Built a portfolio website that received an honourable mention on Awwwards.

Education

Durham University

BSc Computer Science

2010 – 2013

First Class Honours. Dissertation published at IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco (2014).