James Kolsby
Cinematographer And Director
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kolsby is a multidisciplinary technologist and visual storyteller combining 12 years of full-stack software experience with hands-on cinematography and directing work. A Columbia CS graduate, he has built production-grade web tooling at firms like Goldman Sachs and SoundCloud while also shooting and editing high-profile branded content for clients including Tommy Hilfiger, Maybelline, and Universal Music. He bridges front-end polish and backend reliability—evident from UI contributions to an elegant WYSIWYG editor and React/GraphQL migrations—so his films and apps both prioritize user experience and robust engineering. Based in New York, James excels at fast-moving, cross-functional projects that require both creative vision and production-scale technical execution.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The Lovett SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Columbia UniversityGeorgia Governor's Honors ProgramFrench, French at Middlebury Monterey Language Academy
English, French
Github Skills (7)
css10
javascript10
jquery10
ui-design9
interface-design9
web-development9
user-interface9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
raphaelcruzeiro/jquery-notebook
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
A modern, simple and elegant WYSIWYG rich text editor.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the jQuery Notebook rich text editor. Their contributions involved modifying the CSS styling to improve visual appearance, including the design of the bubble and its triangle. They also fixed movement issues and updated the state of the editor to incorporate an underline formatting option. The user's work directly impacts the visual and functional aspects of the text editor.
rich-text-editorwysiwyg
jrkolsby/Castle
Sep 2017 - Nov 2022
My IDE
Contributions:2 PRs, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
ide
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