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James Watt

My Experience

Software Engineer @ Tripadvisor

2023/08 - Present

Tripadvisor is the world's largest travel platform helping 463 million travelers each month and operates the leading travel experience site Viator
  • Working in a high performing agile team to develop features at scale for the main Viator site that serves millions of users all over the world

  • Performing full stack development using Java and Spring Boot on the server side and React on the client side

Project Showcase

Technologies I Dabble With

Who am I?

I'm a software engineer based out of London, England and an xpat of New Zealand. I enjoy software engineering for its sometimes mind bending mix of subjectiveness and objectivness where there is almost never a sliver bullet. This has helped me develop extensive software skill over 6 years of programming and 3 years of working in high performing agile teams.

Outside of software my interests include writing, journalism, hiking throughout the world, exploring Londons historic pubs, running, reading books relating to topics such as sociology, fantasy, politics, philosophy and...sensory deprivation tanks ;)

Books I'm Involved With

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Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky
06/01/2024
Fiction

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

Martin Wolf
06/01/2024
Economics

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway
25/12/2023
Fiction

Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

John Cleese
09/12/2023
Nonfiction

The Work Which Inspired This Site

"Good artists borrow, great artists steal" - Pablo Picasso