James Hawkins
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJames Hawkins is a pragmatic, product-focused co-CEO and co-founder based in San Francisco with six years of hands-on startup leadership and engineering experience. He helped grow PostHog into an open-source analytics platform used by 140k businesses and a 375k-strong developer community, while still contributing front-end and full-stack improvements to core repos. Comfortable oscillating between strategy, sales, and code, he previously built teams and profitable divisions from scratch and closed multi‑million dollar enterprise deals. Known for a sarcastic wit that masks earnest helpfulness, he blends Cambridge-trained economic thinking with a hacker’s attention to UX and product detail.
6 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
css10
typescript10
ui-design10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
web-analytics9
gatsby9
web-frontend9
frontend9
gatsbyjs9
html8
tailwind8
tailwindcss8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
PostHog/posthog.com
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Official docs, website, and handbook for PostHog.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:756 reviews, 528 commits, 787 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on updating and modifying the website's front-end components. They modified the homepage layout, including image updates and adding links to images. Further contributions involved changes to the footer, header, and layout components, indicating a focus on overall website structure and design. The commits included changes in CSS and React, demonstrating their skills in web development and user interface design.
posthoghandbookdesigngatsbytailwindcss
PostHog/handbook
Feb 2020 - May 2020
ARCHIVE (see Posthog.com repo instead): The PostHog handbook
Contributions:45 commits, 11 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 months
posthoghandbookdocsify
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