James Acklin
Product Manager at Tlon
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Acklin is a product-minded engineer and designer with 11 years of experience building user-facing products and design systems, currently shaping interfaces and releases for a privacy-first operating system at Tlon. He blends hands-on front-end engineering (React/TypeScript, Node.js) with UX research and design thinking, having led an accessible, international design system at Nielsen that harmonized 100+ digital products. Comfortable in Agile, Scrum, and Kanban, he moves between prototyping, UI implementation, and stakeholder facilitation, and has contributed notable UI improvements to the Urbit project’s Hark notifications. His interests in distributed systems, self-hosted services, and data visualization complement a practical toolkit that also includes Rust and Python, reflecting a rare mix of product leadership and code-level execution. Based in Pittsburgh, he’s known for turning complex domain workflows into polished, usable interfaces that respect user ownership and accessibility.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Journalism & Mass Communication, Broadcast Journalism, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Journalism & Mass Communication, Broadcast Journalism at Point Park University
Github Skills (9)
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
notification9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
urbit/urbit
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
An operating function
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 181 commits, 63 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on front-end development within the Urbit landscape repository. Their commits show a consistent effort in modifying and refining UI components using TypeScript and React. Key contributions include implementing and improving the user interface for the Hark notifications system, including adding functionality like persistent hovering controls and modifying the appearance of author display names in chat messages. Furthermore, the user addressed specific issues related to UI elements.
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jamesacklin/send
Dec 2018 - Jan 2020
🤙 Send, a client application for browsing and reading articles from Dirt Rag Magazine
Contributions:14 releases, 122 PRs, 287 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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