A bit about me
I learn your business first.
The right technology follows.
I'm James Blizzard. I've been doing this since 2006. The early years were the unglamorous projects that teach you the most: rescuing stalled work, dragging print-era systems into the web era, helping small businesses ship things they didn't think they could.
Since 2014 I have led engineering at Browser Group, eventually as Technical Director and CTO. I've architected mission-critical, complex systems for clients who couldn't afford them to go wrong, including platforms streaming millions of documents a month through NLP and AI tooling.
I'm happiest getting to grips with a new domain, learning it well enough to make theright calls quickly. Coming up to speed fast, then delivering, is a lot of what I bring.
Outside the specifics, I'm a firm believer that the best technical decisions are usually the ones that read, written down, like common sense.
Got something you'd like to talk through?
A short email is plenty. Tell me where you are and what you're wrestling with. I'll usually reply within a working day, with either an honest yes, an honest no, or an honest question.