About
I'm James, but most people call me Jives. A software engineer from London, England, now based in Washington DC.

Over the past 10+ years I've worked across video games, digital media, and finance, building everything from full-scale design systems and applications down to small scripts and tools. Design systems are the thing I keep coming back to, along with making the web more accessible, performant, and user-friendly. I'm a big advocate for open source, and I've contributed to plenty of projects over the years.
These days I'm the Lead Software Engineer on the Shared Tech team at Blizzard Entertainment, where I maintain the Forge design system and framework.
I caught the building bug around the age of twelve, making websites in FrontPage with my Dad. Since then the work has taken me all over, alongside teams at Activision Blizzard, Valve, Microsoft, Capital One, The Washington Post and more. A few of those projects might even look familiar.
Outside work it's fitness, my partner, and our cats, plus traveling, tracking down good food, and an unreasonable amount of coffee. I'm always up for a new challenge, so feel free to get in touch if you'd like to collaborate.

















