James Brightman

Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience delivering scalable SaaS platforms, cloud-native services, and secure multi-tier applications across healthcare, blockchain, analytics, and eCommerce domains. Expert in Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Vue.js, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation. Led architecture modernization initiatives supporting more than 4M daily transactions while lowering infrastructure costs by 32% and accelerating release velocity by 55%. Strong background in REST API engineering, DRF, SQL optimization, Agile delivery, security remediation, monitoring automation, and AI-assisted development workflows using GitHub, Copilot and Claude Code.