James Ellis
Principal Mobile Engineering Lead at Appcues
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Ellis is a principal mobile engineering leader with 10+ years building and directing high-profile iOS and Android products, currently driving Appcues' Swift and Kotlin SDK efforts to bring in-app experiences into SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose. He previously led mobile engineering at FOX, shaping the FOX Sports apps and guiding teams from hands-on development to managerial oversight. His background spans native mobile, cross-platform Xamarin, backend APIs, and even reservoir simulation tooling from an earlier engineering career, reflecting a rare mix of product-focused mobile expertise and domain-driven systems work. Based in Cincinnati, he is known for turning complex integration needs into developer-friendly SDKs and shipping initial releases that simplify embedding product experiences.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (46)
android-sdk10
sdk10
plugin9
android9
swift8
react8
flutter-plugin8
native-module8
render8
react-native-module8
ios8
react-native8
ruby7
cross-platform7
powershell6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
appcues/appcues-capacitor-plugin
Sep 2022 - Dec 2024
The Appcues Capacitor Plugin for Ionic Apps
Contributions:16 releases, 32 reviews, 65 PRs in 2 years 2 months
capacitorionicandroidcapacitor-pluginionic-apps
appcues/segment-appcues-android
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
The Appcues Android SDK integration with Segment
Contributions:19 releases, 24 reviews, 49 PRs in 2 years 8 months
segmentandroidandroid-sdksdk
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