Jamie Birch shirakaba

💼 I'm a Software Engineer at Strategy & Technology Ltd, making web apps for Smart TVs and supporting infrastructure (e.g. video encoding as a service).


I have brought Peppa Pig to countless children across the UK by implementing the Ketchup video-on-demand app for HbbTV.

📚 As hobby projects, I enjoy studying Japanese and Chinese, and even make apps to help me learn them.


I make LinguaBrowse, an iOS web browser and macOS Safari Extension for browsing the foreign-language web.

👨🏻‍🔧 I'm also an avid open-source contributor with a deep interest in cross-platform app development. I'm currently building:

React NativeScript – a React Native alternative
Svelte NodeGUI – an Electron alternative
NS:IDE – a NativeScript REPL for accessing native functionality via JavaScript

👥 I love to meet other developers and see what they're working on, and so attend various tech meetups. I've even started my own (which you are welcome to join!).

🎲 In my spare time (because I must convince myself that I am a well rounded person), I enjoy Euro-style tabletop games, play guitar, draw comics, read comics, cook this-and-that, walk in the woods, participate in language exchanges and experiment with streaming.

📫 Feel free to contact me on Twitter @LinguaBrowse!

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Created 28 commits in 4 repositories

nativescript-community/ui-material-components 24 commits

nodegui/svelte-nodegui-starter 2 commits

NativeScript/nativescript-app-templates 1 commit

nodegui/svelte-nodegui 1 commit