James Coleman
Engineering Manager at BugHerd
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Coleman is an experienced engineering manager based in Queensland, Australia, with 11 years of hands-on and leadership experience building modern web products. He specializes in evolving legacy stacks to React-driven architectures, improving developer velocity and customer MRR while running day-to-day engineering. At BugHerd he leads teams to deliver polished, user-focused front-end experiences and has contributed notable UX improvements to popular open-source React widgets. His background ranges from high-traffic analytics and support systems to client-facing digital campaigns, giving him a strong sense for performance and product impact. Known for reliable technical estimates and pragmatic roadmap execution, he pairs mentorship with practical coding chops. Off-hours motto—"in for a penny, in for a pound"—hints at his commitment to seeing improvements through to completion.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Animation, Digital Media, Animation, Digital Media at Queensland University of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
react-components10
javascript10
component-kit10
react10
react-component10
ui-design9
forms9
front-end-development9
uid9
html6
php6
validation6
jquery6
regex6
jquery-validate6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jquense/react-widgets
Sep 2014 - Mar 2015
Polished, feature rich, accessible form inputs built with React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the React widgets library. Their contributions include fixing a type issue in the header component, adding a maxLength prop to the multiselect component, and implementing highlighting of current day/month/year/decade in the calendar components. They also addressed a bug regarding opening the multiselect popup on subsequent input focus. These changes improved the usability and feature set of the React widgets.
polishedreactbuilt-with-reactaccessiblefeature-rich
macropodhq/macropod-tools
May 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 18 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 months
webpackreactbuild-toolsdevelopment-server
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