James Dow
Senior Design Technologist at Klaviyo
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Dow is a Senior Design Technologist with 11 years of experience crafting accessible, performant front-end experiences across consumer streaming platforms and enterprise design systems. Based in Boston, he combines a designer’s empathy with engineering rigor—shipping TV apps for Peacock, globalizing SkyShowtime, and improving accessibility and in-app purchasing across multiple devices. At IBM he helped evolve the Carbon Design System and built Carbon Devtools, growing it to 1,000 users internally, and contributed the initial MVP footer to the high-profile Carbon for IBM.com repo. He excels at turning research-backed concepts into production-ready UI components, refactoring for performance, and building developer tools that surface translations and labels directly in VSCode. Known for mentoring teams and bridging design and code, James often surfaces non-obvious improvements (like locale-driven data integrations and spacing refinements) that materially improve UX.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree Computer Science, Associate's Degree Computer Science at Florida CollegeBachelor of Science (BS) Web Design & Development, Bachelor of Science (BS) Web Design & Development at Full Sail University
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
web-components10
react10
html9
css9
scs8
storybook8
sc8
carbon-design-system7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon-for-ibm-dotcom
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
Carbon for IBM.com is based on the Carbon Design System for IBM
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 144 reviews, 113 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the development of the footer component within the React-based IBM.com Carbon Design System. Their work involved implementing the initial MVP of the footer, including the creation of new components like the FooterLogo and the integration of data from a translation service. The user also refactored code, added a locale button, and addressed various spacing issues.
lit-elementreactlitweb-componentscss
photodow/ibm-dotcom-library
Jul 2019 - Oct 2020
IBM.com library based on the Carbon Design System for IBM
Contributions:109 pushes, 32 branches, 6 tags in 1 year 3 months
ibmcarbondesign-systemcarbon-design-system
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