Jack James
Product Manager at Pixerate
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJack James is a product manager and founder based in London with 13 years of experience building and shipping digital products across startups and creative studios. He combines hands-on engineering roots—contributing backend work to projects like the WordPress–Discourse integration—with senior product leadership roles at Framestore and Autodesk. As a founder of Pixerate and Surreal Road, he blends entrepreneurial grit with a creative, image-first sensibility that informs product direction and rapid experimentation. Colleagues describe him as a generalist who values storytelling, curiosity, and empowering teams rather than micromanaging them. He’s comfortable moving between strategy and implementation, learning from failures as deliberately as from successes. Notably, his background in Photographic & Electronic Imaging Science gives him a practical edge when designing products for visual creatives.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
1:1 BSc(Hons) Photographic & Electronic Imaging Science, 1:1 BSc(Hons) Photographic & Electronic Imaging Science at University of Westminster
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5,292reputation
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26answers
51questions
twitter-bootstrap
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javascript
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jquery
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Github Skills (19)
twitter-bootstrap10
plugin-development10
php10
javascript9
authentication9
jquery9
user-authentication9
co9
single-sign-on7
jquery-ui6
swift-protocols6
swift6
special-characters6
swift-playgrounds6
ascii6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/wp-discourse
May 2013 - Dec 2013
WordPress plugin that lets you use Discourse as the community engine for a WordPress blog
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the WordPress plugin's back-end functionality, focusing on integrating Discourse with WordPress. Their work includes implementing features to sync posts, manage custom post types, and handle template tags for displaying information from Discourse. They also addressed bugs and introduced new features like the ability to add author information and featured images to Discourse posts, expanding the plugin's capabilities. Furthermore, they added settings fields to adjust the excerpt length.
wordpresswordpress-plugincommentssingle-sign-onauthentication
surrealroad/alfred-remote-desktop
Sep 2013 - Aug 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 11 months
remote-desktopdesktop
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