Scouting report
Cactus co-founder — 223 merged PRs across a polyglot stack
assessed from open-source footprint
James is the driving author behind his startup Cactus Ltd., with 223 merged PRs and heavy commits to private-feeling company repos (stamp-maker 42, csvprocessor 30, payment-spreader 8) in Java, Swift, Scala and Python. The signal is sustained founder-level output across many languages rather than public stars (his repos total just 1★, with 84% abandonment). Strong for a versatile senior generalist who builds and runs his own tooling.
Authorship & open source
Contributes to
- cactus-bm/stamp-maker0★
- cactus-bm/csvprocessor0★
- cactus-bm/payment-spreader0★
- cactus-bm/cactx0★
What they build
Industry experience
- Developer Tools
- Web & CMS
- E-commerce & Retail
Signal breakdown
1
top repo 1
38
24% forks
4
13.6 yr
0
Active
84% stale
Strengths
- Verified author — wrote 50% of commits on haddock
- Open-source contributor — 4 external projects incl. cactus-bm/stamp-maker (0★)
- 223 merged pull requests
- Original builder — 38 of their own repositories
- Backend focus with Mobile
- Domain experience in Developer Tools & Web & CMS
- Core stack: Java, JavaScript, Shell, Swift
About
Skills
- Java
- JavaScript
- Shell
- Swift
- Python
- TypeScript
- Scala
Featured work
transcriptions
A wrapper around the GCP speech to text libraries
- Python
by James Robinson
Status Screen
A simple app for showing some status screens
- Python
by James Robinson
Wedding Guest Ranker
A simple application for ranking wedding Guests
- TypeScript
by James Robinson
bluemountainpubcrawl
The world famous blue mountain pub crawl
- Code
by James Robinson
scripts
Some scripts that I use
- Shell
by James Robinson
marketing
A Place to store marketing
- Shell
by James Robinson