# James Taylor — I help small engineering teams ship code that's cheap to debug and easy to change six months later

_Luton, United Kingdom_

Profile: https://www.everyexpert.com/jamestaylor-dev

## About

I'm a lead software engineer, 12 years in — five of them leading a 10-developer team at Mindtech, now contracting on an Azure + .NET + React stack for Synthera. I help 2–10 person teams turn "it works on my machine" into code the next person can debug, change and trust.

I've led 5 concurrent projects across 3 departments, owned the code reviews and technical-debt work on a shipped C# product, written the coding standards and run the TDD and pair-programming training, cut a live product's bug count 75% by rebuilding how the team debugged, and architected its move from boxed product to SaaS.

My own product, AhChord: .NET 10 + ASP.NET Core, EF Core, PostgreSQL, SignalR, React 18 + TypeScript, one Docker container. 627 API tests, 134 web tests, a zero-warnings build gate, 102 filed tickets with evidence and the smallest fix.

Bring the code: a repo that's expensive to change, a bug nobody can reproduce, a Unity build that won't hold frame rate, a launch that needs a second pair of eyes.

## Sessions I offer

- [Debug & code triage](https://www.everyexpert.com/jamestaylor-dev/book/code-triage) — 30 min, $50.00
  On the thing that is stuck: the bug nobody can reproduce, the change nobody wants to make, the decision that keeps getting postponed. Screen shared, I drive, your repo. You leave with the next two moves, what I would test first, and a short written summary in the thread after we hang up. Small-team C#/.NET, React + TypeScript, Postgres, Azure, Unity 3D.
- [Free fit call — repo, bug, or launch](https://www.everyexpert.com/jamestaylor-dev/book/free-fit-call-repo-bug-or-launch) — 20 min, Free
  No pitch, no obligation. You describe the repo, the bug, or the launch; I say out loud the 2-3 things I would look at first, and what a paid session on it would cover. If it is not a fit I say that too, and point you at the cheapest way to fix it yourself. Bring the repo, a branch, or the error.
- [Architecture / pre\-launch review](https://www.everyexpert.com/jamestaylor-dev/book/architecture-review) — 1 hour, $180.00
  For the design that has not shipped yet: service boundaries, the data model, auth and payment paths, what to test first, and what to refuse to build this quarter. You get a written follow-up list to paste straight into your tracker, each item with why it will matter in six months. Send the repo, the diagram, or the spec a day ahead. I have led a boxed-product-to-SaaS rebuild and owned code review on a shipped C# product.
- [Unity 3D performance review](https://www.everyexpert.com/jamestaylor-dev/book/unity-performance) — 1 hour, $220.00
  For the build that will not hold frame rate. Driven by your profiler capture: where the frame time goes - draw calls, GC spikes, physics, asset load - the order to fix it in, and what to measure next. You get the findings list in the thread with the number to beat. 11 years of Unity/C#, the UI Toolkit migration on a shipped product. Send a profiler capture, the device list, and the scene that misbehaves.

## Links

- [youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@bunnycodingdev)
- [James Taylor on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-taylor-64777011b)

## Citation

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