Abraham Williams
Software Engineer at GitHub
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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RockstarAbraham Williams is a software engineer with 17 years of experience, currently building products at GitHub and previously a senior developer at Bendyworks. A startup founder and international speaker, he is recognized as a Google Developer Expert and ranks in the top 1% of Stack Overflow contributors, reflecting deep community engagement and problem-solving ability. He contributes across the stack, from front-end TinyMCE/Rails image upload enhancements to back-end work on Rails-based community platform Forem and core fixes to the widely used twitteroauth PHP library. His open-source focus emphasizes code quality and maintainability—removing deprecated patterns, enabling linters, and improving OAuth reliability. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, he pairs pragmatic engineering with public speaking and community mentorship, often surfacing practical solutions to common developer pain points.
17 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
47,262reputation
3.5mreached
1,170answers
2questions
firebase
top-1%
google-cloud-firestore
top-5%
routes
top-5%
google-api
top-1%
debugging
top-5%
model-view-controller
top-5%
Github Skills (58)
json10
ruby-rails10
google-api10
javascript10
twitter10
progressive-web-apps10
rails10
image-upload10
browser10
twitter-api10
ruby10
google-chrome-extension10
php10
google-chrome10
rest10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
abraham/twitteroauth
Nov 2009 - Jan 2023
The most popular PHP library for use with the Twitter OAuth REST API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 releases, 1 review, 602 commits in 13 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Abraham primarily updated the OAuth library by modifying the `OAuth.php` file. The changes focused on correcting functionality within the core OAuth library, including signature methods and request handling. These commits appear to correct core functionality of the Twitter OAuth PHP library, improving its reliability for interactions with the Twitter API. The user also added a configuration file and a session clearing script.
twitteroauthapiphptwitter-apirest
PerfectlyNormal/tinymce-rails-imageupload
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Image upload plugin for TinyMCE and Rails with the asset pipeline
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Abraham primarily contributed to the `tinymce-rails-imageupload` repository by enhancing the image upload plugin for TinyMCE. Their work focused on adding configuration options, such as enabling/disabling the plugin and setting default class lists. Code changes involved modifying the plugin's JavaScript to handle file uploads, integrate with the Rails asset pipeline, and display the images correctly within the TinyMCE editor. They also implemented optimizations and formatting improvements.
tinymceupload-pluginpipelinerailsimage-upload
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