Tyler Scott Williams
💻 Senior Software Engineer 💻
💻 Senior Software Engineer 💻
About Me
I am Tyler Williams, a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of professional expertise in crafting impeccably optimized and high-performance web applications. In my spare moments, I passionately engineer cutting-edge technology proofs to propel businesses towards enhanced application performance and streamlined workflows for my teams. My unwavering commitment has consistently revolved around the pillars of code readability, maintainability, and peak performance. This perspective empowers me to seamlessly integrate into teams, identifying opportunities for code enhancement and optimization effortlessly.
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Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Oct 2024 - PresentLed the implementation of new ad experiments in order to increase click-through rates during the transaction moment. Proposed system architectural restructuring to enable scaling of the business. Created and implemented a new component library for company usage across multiple internal products. Coordinated across international teams to facilitate seamless code reviews. Advocated for subject matter expert code ownership to remove bottlenecks in the development process.
Technologies Used: Typescript, Emotion, React, JSON Schema, Styled Components, Web Components
Senior Software Engineer - Contract
Jan 2024 - Apr 2024Responsible for leading the migration of legacy web platforms from .NET, PHP, old React applications, Vue, Angular, and static sites to a modern platform utilizing Contentful CMS, TailwindCSS, Next.js, and TypeScript. Worked within a lean team of 2-3 engineers per squad, contributing to an organization of approximately 14 engineers. Played a pivotal role in implementing React Server Components, overcoming a steep learning curve to integrate this new Next.js feature seamlessly into projects. Leveraged expertise in React, TypeScript, and Next.js to build robust, maintainable, and high-performance web applications. Ensured a smooth transition to Contentful CMS, enhancing content management capabilities and streamlining workflows. Successfully migrated multiple legacy web platforms, improving performance, maintainability, and user experience, and positioned the team at the forefront of modern web development practices.
Technologies Used: Next.js, Typescript, Contentful, React, TailwindCSS
Senior Software Engineer II
May 2020 - Sep 2023Led the development of the B2B product "Control Panel," addressing operators' business needs and managing technical debt. Transitioned class components to functional components and introduced integration testing standards, enhancing software reliability. Mentored peers for better collaboration and improved the developer experience by resolving process pain points. Optimized the deployment process, replacing Webpack with Vite and converting Jenkins pipelines to Concourse. Collaborated with the design team to implement a new design system using ChakraUI.
Technologies Used: Javascript, Typescript, React, Chakra UI, Jest/React Testing Library, Next.js, CSS-in-JS, Redux, Redux Toolkit
Senior Software Engineer
Mar 2018 - May 2020Actively working alongside a multidisciplinary team of engineers to design and develop a multi-site/multi-brand, React single page, server side rendered ecommerce application. Utilizing modern frameworks and technologies, I have helped architect the redesigned rewards program, the single sign on cross banner platform for the online Footlocker Branded experience. My responsibilties also include root cause analysis, code optimization and rapid solutioning to keep up with the demands of project owners.
Technologies Used: React, Webpack, Redux, SCSS
Interactive Frontend Web Developer
Mar 2017 - Mar 2018While working alongside 10 other developers, I built and maintained all online socially branding websites for Macys.com. Projects were constructed utilizing Node.js, Handlebards, SASS, JQuery, and React, to deliver the most responsive and interactive e-commerce sites for all modern browsers and every major platform. Before development began, I collaborated with several other departments, to coordinate acceptance criteria and to retrieve analytic requirements to produce a fully tested final product. Because of Macy’s growing online footprint, I also provided swift debugging support support for other teammates to ensure site reliability while also juggling side projects and proofs of concepts to potentially improve the project workflow.
Technologies Used: jQuery, Handlebars, Grunt, GSAP, Pixie.js, D3.js, SCSS
Frontend Web Developer
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017Conceived, implemented, and managed large-scale Optimizely A/B and Multivariant user experiments in order to construct unique and highly performant frontend experiences. Alongside a team of several other developers, I built and maintained extensive Wordpress multi-sites and custom plugins for Wiley Efficient Learning, Springbank and LeeCo. I have Also worked with 9/11 Museum and Memorial, Oliver Scholars, Pennsaid and Gusto, utilizing PHP, Javascript, Jquery and CSS3 among other
Technologies Used: PHP, Wordpress, SCSS, jQuery, SCSS/LESS
Teaching Assistant
Aug 2014 - May 2015Organized, planned and instructed weekly programming labs to aid in upcoming course content to a section of 15+ students. Held weekly office hours to also assist students in troubleshooting and debugging their code. Managed the online student forums providing answers to technical programming questions and language specific peculiarities relevant to the course material.
Education
Cornell University, BA
Computer Science | 2010-2015
Cornell University, BFA
Fine Arts | 2010-2015
Skills
Vite
Redux
React
Typescript
SQLite
Jest
Next.js
Vitest
Tanstack/query
GraphQL
Directus
Webpack
Contentful
Photoshop CC
Storybook
React Testing Library
Redux Toolkit
Playwright
Digitalocean
HTML5
Javascript
Figma
Nodejs
Jira
Java
CSS/LESS/SCSS
git
Cypress
Bash
mySQL
Wordpress
AWS
MongoDB
Docker
PHP
PostgreSQL
neo4j
Firebase
jQuery
Adobe Experience Manager
Angular
Python