James Acklin

Product manager at Tlon Corporation since 2021, design director at Nielsen from 2017, designer at Rhiza from 2013, front-end developer at Smith Brothers Agency from 2011; a host of other interesting side gigs.

Competencies

• Agile/scrum/kanban product management
• Leading-edge software UX design
• Continuous customer discovery and product strategy
• React, bash, CI/CD automation, some Rust, some Python
• Distributed, self-hosted, and peer-to-peer systems

Recent Undertakings

• landscape, a launchpad and framework for developers to build and distribute zero-config p2p applications
• landscape-apps, “digital basics” for self-owned social p2p communication (messaging, chat, publishing, link collecting, etc.)
• bridge, a user-facing management inferface for a layer-2 PKI
• bord, a Landscape application to track the growth of a digital community over time
• urbit-notifier, a Rust program to forward Landscape notifications to other services via webhook
• nielsen-gds, a fully-accessible i8n UI design system for 6+ international verticals
• nerveharp.net, personal blogging

Contact

• james@ackl.lin
• ~rilfun-lidlen