James Frost
Senior Software Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Frost is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years' experience specializing in native Mac and iOS development, currently working at DuckDuckGo after a multi-year tenure at Automattic. He has shipped polished consumer apps—Day One and WordPress Mobile—leading features from shared journals and Catalyst experiments to AI-driven journaling prompts and image generation while maintaining privacy-first design. Hands-on across front-end UI, accessibility, and platform integrations, his open-source contributions include significant UI work on the WordPress iOS Aztec editor and numerous accessibility and UX fixes. Comfortable toggling between individual contributor and team lead roles, he blends deep product sensibility with pragmatic engineering and a knack for turning complex platform features into delightful user experiences. Based in Bristol, James pairs a First-class Computer Science degree from Swansea with a steady record of shipping thoughtful, user-centric mobile experiences.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First at Swansea University
Github Skills (12)
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swift10
uikit10
ios10
html-editor10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
html9
accessibility9
objective-c9
swiftui7
swiftui-app7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS
Jan 2016 - Jul 2022
WordPress for iOS - Official repository
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:444 reviews, 5733 commits, 1093 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the iOS app, working on various UI and functional improvements. They implemented voiceover preparation for accessibility in header cells, refined modal appearances for iOS 13, fixed a crash related to table view handlers, and addressed navigation bar style issues. Furthermore, they modified the app's appearance, including the background and tint colors, and updated the display of the settings. They also worked on the design, testing, and implementation of the app, making changes to button styles and overall code cleanup.
cocoapodsobjective-cwordpressswiftios
wordpress-mobile/AztecEditor-iOS
Jun 2017 - Aug 2019
A reusable native iOS visual HTML text editor component.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:98 commits, 35 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on developing the user interface components for the Aztec editor iOS component. Their commits reveal significant work related to the `FormatBar` component, refactoring its view hierarchy, adding features such as animation, and implementing the option to toggle overflow items. Furthermore, the user updated the icons and the order of buttons in the demo controller, enhancing the user experience and functionality of the iOS text editor.
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