Stephen James
Principal Front End Engineer at Salesforce
Bigfork, Montana, United States Other
Summary
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RockstarStephen James is a Principal Front End Engineer with 12 years of experience who leads accessibility, design system, and UI architecture efforts at Salesforce, driving experiential integration for $1B+ acquisitions. He partners across engineering, design, compliance, and product to create consistent, compliant component ecosystems and defines roadmaps, metrics, and executive-aligned delivery cadence. A hands-on contributor to the popular salesforce/design-system-react repository, he blends pixel-level implementation with high-level strategy—coaching teams, hiring and mentoring junior engineers, and launching MuleSoft’s accessibility program. Based in Bigfork, Montana, he brings a rare mix of user-research-led product thinking and poet-like attention to beauty and justice that shapes inclusive, impactful experiences.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
780reputation
30kreached
53answers
4questions
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
component-design10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
react10
system-design9
system9
frontend9
sld8
html6
versioning6
css6
wizard6
jquery6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
salesforce/design-system-react
Apr 2016 - Oct 2022
Salesforce Lightning Design System for React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:79 releases, 93 reviews, 3535 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Stephen contributed to the development of UI components, particularly within the Salesforce Lightning Design System for React. Their commits primarily focused on implementing features and fixing bugs in React components. Key contributions included the addition of new functionality and the modification of existing ones, such as adding a new option to a component, adding a required prop, and updating design elements to align with the Salesforce Lightning Design System. The user also worked on refining styling of certain components and updating the documentation.
reactlightning-design-systemjavascriptlightningsalesforce
interactivellama/fuelux-mctheme
Jan 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:65 pushes, 135 branches in 2 years 5 months
lookuser-interfacebootstrap-3salesforce-marketing-cloudsalesforce
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