About

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My name is Rami James. I design products and implement front-ends in Vue and Nuxt. You can find me on Twitter, Github, and LinkedIn. I'm always building something. These days I'm focused on building Vewrite, a project management tool for developer relations, technical writing teams, and writers.

Experience

Freelance

Contractor

Present

Currently I provide a variety of product, development, and devrel services as a solo contractor. If you need those kinds of services, you can email me directly at ramijames@gmail.com.

I have:

  • Worked with multiple teams to produce usable and accessible products for web and mobile
  • Provided key insights to small teams as they developed their strategy, vision, and roadmap
  • Helped fine-tune processes in companies as they experienced growing pains
  • Implemented products in a variety of modern javascript frameworks like Vue and Nuxt

Ultra

2020 - 2023

Head of Product for Developer Relations

  • Grew the developer pool from zero to dozens of active developers
  • Established Ultra’s documentation platform product website. Built its roadmap, wrote docs, and produced video tutorials
  • Successfully ran a Developer Hackathon with a $30K prize pool
  • Produced a successful tech-focused podcast with thousands of listeners

Technical Project Manager

  • Scaled (3 to 10 developers) and lead the technical team that launched Ultra’s gaming-focused networks
  • Used an agile approach to solve production issues across multiple teams
  • Produced roadmaps, product plans, and technical requirements using JIRA and Product Board

Scatter

2018 - 2020

Co-founder and Head of Product

  • Provided a clear vision for our startup while defining the product strategy and driving innovation
  • Launched multiple versions of the popular Scatter wallet and scaled to 250K DAU
  • Produced wireframes, prototypes, designs, marketing materials, websites, and documentation hubs for the community
  • Directly interfaced with both developers and retail users to understand their needs

Qmarkets

2015 - 2019

Senior User Experience Designer and Developer

  • Overhauled the user experience of an established enterprise product. Modernized the user experience to support mobile devices while making it easier to access, input, and manage key data and workflows
  • Lead the update to the user experience and visual design of the core products of Qmarkets
  • Worked closely with the R&D group where I facilitated the implementation of enterprise software used by tens of thousands of people across many large enterprises such as Lufthansa and Ford. Work was primarily in Drupal/PHP/CSS