James Francis
Senior Digital Designer at Parallax
Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJames Hall is a seasoned software leader and founder based in Leeds with 16 years of experience, serving as Director of Parallax Agency and co‑founder/CTO of Ombo AI, a generative‑AI compliance startup. He splits his time between hands‑on coding and customer discovery, delivering work ranging from city‑wide IoT street lighting and remote car unlocking to mobile apps tackling loneliness. A pragmatic full‑stack engineer and DevOps/AWS advocate, he continuously improves delivery practices and platform tooling. Active in open source, his contributions span backend error reporting for Laravel, terminal UX fixes for international keyboards, client‑side PDF rendering, and system‑monitoring UI—reflecting a rare blend of low‑level UX fixes and high‑level system design.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (42)
keyboard-input10
javascript10
node-js10
laravel510
laravel610
testing10
css10
laravel1010
terminal-application10
laravel10
ui-design10
keyboard10
laravel910
php10
laravel810
Programming languages (11)
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, 472 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.
pdfreact-pdfclient-sidejavascriptpdf-generation
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