James Mercer
Engineering Director @THG
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WORK HISTORY
Engineering Director @THG
Group Chief Technical Architect (2021-), Engineering & Data Science, DevOps + SRE, Innovation and Growth, Research and DevelopmentLead staff in 12 teams across 6 offices in a high-performance culture- Software engineering: e-commerce, SaaS, PaaS, analytics, and API development for customers ranging from casual and non-technical to large scale and very technical- Technical architecture: large-scale distributed systems design including our 0% downtime e-commerce stack and backend distributed systems and data for our very high-volume global website and services. Architected a significant number of component systems across the platform. Moving systems to a cloud-native approach across hybrid clouds- SRE, DevOps, and Data Engineering (and Data Science) including analytics, monitoring, and Kubernetes- R&D project to detect and block large scale network attacks and develop software engineers from STEM graduates- Eco technical initiatives around carbon offsetting and packaging reuse
EDUCATION
Georgia Institute of Technology
PhD, Physics
SKILLS
ABOUT JAMES MERCER
Making things happen by bringing great people and great technology together. Project/program and engineering management of innovative and critical projects in software development, data science, and dev-ops in small and large, start up and established organizations. Experienced in defining the technical strategy and products and building and leading agile teams built from business, software engineering, data science and tech operations to create data driven solutions faster while maintaining quality and long term direction. Strong technical skills with hands-on roles in architecture, data science, and software development from the initial ideas through to the full production life cycle.
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