James Routley

👋 Hello! I'm James - I'm a software engineer at Avian Labs, where I'm working on Sling, and app to send money to your friends anywhere in the world.

• I wrote this tutorial on how to write a hash table in C
• I wrote 24a2, an ultra-minimalist JavaScript game engine
• I wrote the first version, but no longer maintain Sceptre, a tool for orchestrating AWS CloudFormation deployments

Previously, I spent five years working as a software engineer at Monzo, where I worked on the core product, growth, and borrowing. In my last year, I was the tech lead on Monzo Flex.

Before that, I worked as a systems developer at Cloudreach. Computer Business Review named me one of their 30 under 30 in Cloud, and I'm an alumnus of the Recurse Center and Oxford University.

• GitHub
• LinkedIn

• 2022-12-18: Ninja build with a Go microservices project
• 2022-08-16: Rhyming three letter words
• 2022-02-18: Random terazzo generator
• 2020-05-27: Scraping a website
• 2020-05-25: Bespoke software, and a really simple RSS aggregator
• 2020-02-21: Setting up Syncthing to synchronise files between computers
• 2020-02-17: Home server and Pi-hole
• 2020-02-16: Analytics server
• 2020-02-15: Mobile viewports
• 2020-02-14: This website has small text on Firefox for mobile
• more

• 2023-12-21: Mountains

• Aug 2023: Rule, Nostalgia - Hannah Rose Woods
• Aug 2023: Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
• Jul 2023: Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
• Jun 2023: Children of Time - Adrian Tschaikovsky
• May 2023: Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
• more