Billy Whited
Dir., Developer Experience at Best Buy
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBilly Whited is a design-focused engineering leader with 13 years of experience scaling front-end teams and design systems across large enterprises, currently serving as Director of Developer Experience at Best Buy. He has repeatedly grown small teams into disciplined, cross-functional organizations—most recently guiding 40+ front-end engineers and championing Team Topologies to improve flow and engagement. Billy combines hands-on UI engineering (Node.js, PostCSS, Angular-era patterns) with strategic influence, creating custom tooling that cut licensing costs and enabled version-controlled design assets. He’s known for bridging product, design, and engineering to deliver reusable, scalable UI infrastructure and for instituting design operations where none existed before. Based in Minneapolis, he blends an arts education with practical systems thinking, bringing a creative eye to enterprise developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Fine and Studio Arts, Bachelor's Degree Fine and Studio Arts at Wabash CollegeMaster's Degree Fine and Studio Arts, Master's Degree Fine and Studio Arts at Tufts University
Github Skills (14)
jekyll9
static-site9
liquid9
markdown9
blog-engine8
site-generator8
ruby8
static-site-generator6
preprocessor6
react5
suit-css5
postcss4
css4
ui-components1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rocketspops/rocketspops.github.com
Feb 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:23 pushes in 7 years 5 months
rocketspops/HTML-CSS-Challenge
Jun 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:24 commits, 10 branches in 1 year 1 month
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