James Fishwick
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorJames Fishwick is a seasoned technology leader and solutions architecture director with over two decades of experience spanning management, software development, and product delivery. Currently Director of Solutions Architecture at Livefront, he previously led engineering at WillowTree, where he built cross-functional teams, established Squad structures via Team Topologies, and steered a $30M mobile program that contributed around 16% of the company’s revenue. His track record includes accelerating software delivery through LLM-enabled development practices, and architecting a robust test automation strategy for medical device UI that saved roughly $210,000 per release. He has steered large fintech and banking initiatives, delivering 90% faster account opening and large-scale modernization across iOS, Android, and web platforms with 20+ direct reports. James combines hands-on engineering depth with strategic leadership, bridging product, design, and business outcomes to ship reliable, scalable systems. Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, he brings a rare blend of entrepreneurial drive, architectural discipline, and a long-standing interest in building practical, user-centered software.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (82)
webpack310
serverless-offline10
serverless-plugin9
webpack29
browserify8
lambdas8
webpack-plugin8
developer-tools7
distributions7
audit7
json-api7
nodejs7
webpack7
serverless6
lambda6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
willowtreeapps/pa11y-queue
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:36 PRs, 31 pushes, 32 branches in 4 days
pythoncheckspa11y
willowtreeapps/wta-lighthouse-logger
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 13 pushes, 9 branches in 4 months
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