James Francis
Senior Digital Designer at Parallax
Leeds, England, United States
Summary
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RockstarJames Francis is a Senior Digital Designer and Webflow developer based in Leeds with 17 years of experience crafting polished digital products and user interfaces. He combines agency and startup experience—co-founding two ventures—bringing both hands-on design and product-minded execution to projects. James is an active open-source contributor with meaningful front-end and full-stack work on notable repos like Hyper and vtop, improving international keyboard handling, window management, and system-monitoring UX. Comfortable bridging design and engineering, he routinely ships UI-focused features, refactors for maintainability, and adds automated tests to improve robustness. That blend of visual craft, practical engineering, and entrepreneurial experience makes him adept at turning complex requirements into delightful, reliable user experiences.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (29)
keyboard-input10
javascript10
laravel-mix10
testing10
css10
terminal-application10
laravel10
ui-design10
keyboard10
php10
exception-handling10
html10
terminal-ui10
nodejs10
react10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
MrRio/vtop
May 2014 - Sep 2018
Wow such top. So stats. More better than regular top.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:233 commits, 31 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:James contributed significantly to the development of the vtop project, adding fundamental features and improving the user interface. Their work included adding CPU and memory usage data, as well as incorporating a process list, demonstrating a focus on system monitoring aspects. Further enhancements involved refactoring code, implementing UI improvements, and incorporating themes. The user also showed a commitment to improving the overall user experience.
statsregular
parallax/jsPDF
Apr 2009 - Jul 2020
Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 444 commits, 475 PRs in 11 years 4 months
Contributions summary:James focused on modifying the frontend of a jsPDF document generator library, particularly on the addition of a basic HTML renderer and example. The contributions involved adding text, styling and functionality within the editor component. The changes introduced additional functionalities, such as setting different font sizes and colors and making the code more user-friendly by adding examples. The changes include code to allow a web server to host the code locally.
javascriptpdf-generation
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