Kieran James
SRE & Platform Engineering Manager
Professionally, I manage the Platform and SRE Engineering Group at Capital on Tap. While my title says engineering manager, I take just as much pride in product thinking. I love pushing boundaries and exploring what’s possible, while never losing sight of reliability and security. If you’re curious how we’re using cutting-edge technology to push the AI space forward, get in touch.
Personally, I’m an avid squash player, gamer, and occasional baker. You’ll often find me and Kuma wandering a forest while he searches for the holy tree to leave his mark on (still no luck).
A typical week, give or take
- 22hrs Average hours in meetings
- 762 Average Slack messages received
- 10K+ Times I pet Kuma
- 188M Average Claude tokens spent
Selected projects
- homiepoints A Discord bot for peer recognition — hand teammates "homie points", with a server leaderboard and activity feed.
- Slackbot: Azure DevOps PR Monitor A Go Slack bot that tracks Azure DevOps pull requests and keeps a Slack message per PR updated as reviews, comments and state changes arrive.
- License Status Page A React status page that shows software licences as a sorted countdown to expiry, with light and dark modes.
From the log
- Making my electric gate smart 30 August 2026 · Wiring an SONOFF MINI-ZBD dry relay into the existing gate motor so I can open the driveway gate from my phone, and from Home Assistant.