Jimmy B.

Jimmy B. has a diverse work experience in the technology industry. Jimmy is currently working as a Lead Engineer at Gousto since February 2023, where they are responsible for library design, software architecture, tooling development, backend development, frontend architecture, and engineer mentoring. Jimmy has also worked as a Senior Engineer at Gousto from August 2020 to February 2023, where they developed internal service and schema registries.

Before Gousto, Jimmy worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Flock from March 2019 to May 2020. Jimmy was involved in full stack development with a focus on functional programming. Jimmy rearchitected the front-end stack and worked on writing a cross-platform insurer application.

Prior to Flock, Jimmy worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Digital Reality Corp from February 2017 to December 2018. Jimmy was the solo developer for the company's flagship WebVR product and focused on high-performance JavaScript, 3D development, and prototype non-traditional interactions. Jimmy also worked on backend Node development and Android development.

Jimmy also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Tictrac from July 2016 to February 2017 and as a Software Engineer at Guardian News & Media from August 2015 to July 2016. Their responsibilities included high-performance JavaScript development and backend development in Scala, respectively.

In the earlier stages of their career, Jimmy worked as a Software Engineer and User Experience Designer at rightmove.co.uk from November 2011 to July 2015. Jimmy also worked as a Product Manager at Slivers of Time Ltd from September 2010 to November 2011.

Jimmy B. attended Wath Comprehensive School from 1998 to 2005. Jimmy then pursued a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) degree in English from the University of Cambridge, where they studied from 2005 to 2009.