Philip James
Engineering Manager at Freed
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip James is an engineering manager and founder with 11 years of experience leading teams to ship e-commerce and SaaS products, enterprise integrations, and creator-focused platforms. He blends hands-on technical leadership—having served as CTO at a pre-seed startup and rebuilt APIs and core systems—with strategic coaching and product intuition that helped drive an acquisition. Known as an empathetic leader and thoughtful optimist, he scales teams and processes (doubling velocity and growing engineering headcount) while stepping in to prototype solutions himself when needed. Philip also runs a management coaching studio and civic tech project, signaling a rare mix of operational rigor and creative practice. Based in the Bay Area, he’s open to executive coaching, strategy roles, and board work, particularly for startups in civic tech or the creator economy. An “artist tricked into coding,” he brings a maker’s curiosity to both product and organizational design.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
129reputation
11kreached
8answers
5questions
Github Skills (183)
python10
saml10
authentication10
datasette10
datasets10
security10
asgi10
django-allauth10
javascript10
openlibrary10
django10
java-bytecode10
browser10
ai10
csv10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
civicband/clerk
Mar 2025 - Jun 2026
The pipeline that pulls data for CivicBand
Contributions:6 reviews, 72 PRs, 210 pushes in 1 year 3 months
phildini/oakland-data
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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