James Clancey
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Summary
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RockstarJames Clancey is a Senior Product Manager and seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building cross-platform mobile and developer tooling, now leading product at GitHub. He has deep expertise in iOS renderers, .NET MAUI/Xamarin, and database concurrency—contributing notable improvements to popular open-source projects like sqlite-net, Xamarin.Forms, and .NET MAUI. At Microsoft he helped architect mobile SDKs and pioneered C# HotReload/HotRestart and Comet, and more recently built native SwiftUI tooling to bring Godot to iOS. James blends hands-on engineering with product leadership, shipping platform features and developer workflows across desktop, mobile, and VR. Colocated in Anchorage, he’s a pragmatic self-starter who repeatedly turns cross-platform complexity into polished developer experiences.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (47)
objective-c10
javascript10
ios10
sqlite10
mobile-development10
ui-components10
maui10
net10
typescript10
xamarin10
user-interface10
ui-design10
xamarin-ios10
net-maui10
uid10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/Comet
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
Comet is an MVU UIToolkit written in C#
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 1593 commits, 152 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:James was primarily focused on building out the UI components for a UI Toolkit in C#, specifically for the .NET platform using Maui. The commits include implementing several new UI elements and integrating them into the framework to render the visual components. They have implemented core user interface components using the Maui library, focusing on the UI/UX aspects of the toolkit with modifications to a core View class.
csharpui-toolkit
mono/monotouch-bindings
Jan 2012 - Feb 2013
A collection of third party bindings for MonoTouch
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:70 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:James's commits primarily focused on developing and integrating third-party bindings for iOS projects within the repository, particularly for technologies such as Google AdMob Ads, Google Analytics, and Tapku. The user created sample projects to demonstrate how to utilize these bindings. They also refactored Facebook and other binding configurations, and updated bindings to ensure they were up to date.
dotnetpartycsharpmonotouchthird-party
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