About Nesta

Nesta is a research and innovation foundation. We apply our deep expertise in applied methods to design, test and scale solutions to some of the biggest challenges of our time, working across the innovation lifecycle.

James is a creative technologist in Nesta’s product and technology team, where he works across technology, product and design to help turn ideas into practical digital solutions.

With more than 20 years’ experience spanning technology, product management and business, James brings a broad perspective to building products, combining an understanding of user needs and organisational challenges with hands-on technical expertise.

His career has moved between product and business leadership and hands-on software engineering, working as an individual contributor in software engineering roles on and off since 2014. He specialises in full-stack web development, with a particular focus on Ruby, Rails, JavaScript and React.