Buddy Williams
Chief AI Innovation Officer
Smyrna, Georgia, United States
Summary
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RockstarBuddy Williams is a seasoned software leader and Chief AI Innovation Officer with 11 years of industry experience building full-stack systems, cloud data platforms, and product-focused analytics. He combines hands-on engineering—contributions to notable open-source projects like PostHog, where he worked on trends visualization, funnel logic, and Apple M1 Docker support—with strategic client-facing roles as a principal and account executive. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, he has led UI platforms, data integration efforts, and no-code initiatives while mentoring teams and guiding delivery from first conversation to production. A pragmatic founder at heart, he has launched and run small businesses focused on hardware sales and application platforms, then transitioned back into enterprise and product work. Based in Smyrna, Georgia, he mixes a scientist’s curiosity with a designer’s appreciation for clarity, always searching for better explanations that enable inspiring product decisions. Colleagues describe him as part-time mad computer scientist and full-time lover of the extraordinary—someone who brings unexpected technical depth to business problems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (22)
unit-testing10
javascript10
typescript10
data-analytics10
web-analytics10
analytics10
vue10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
frontend10
backend10
react10
vue-jsx10
es6-promise9
dockers9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PostHog/posthog
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
🦔 PostHog provides open-source web & product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and A/B testing that you can self-host. Get started - free.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 12 commits, 19 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Buddy contributed to both frontend and backend aspects of the PostHog project. They added Docker support for the Apple M1 chip, modifying Dockerfiles and build configurations. Furthermore, the user implemented features and made improvements to the trends visualization, updating frontend code using TypeScript/React and also modifying backend logic. Additionally, the user worked on code related to funnel trends and conversion windows, including changes to SQL queries and the overall structure of the funnel features.
pythonabtestingdata-warehouseself-hostjavascript
pulsardev/vue-tour
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Vue Tour is a lightweight, simple and customizable guided tour plugin for use with Vue.js. It provides a quick and easy way to guide your users through your application.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 3 days
Contributions summary:Buddy primarily focused on improving the unit tests for the Vue Tour library. They updated test configurations, replaced deprecated methods, and added more comprehensive tests. Significant changes were made to the `VTour` component, implementing promise-based functionality for the `start`, `next`, and `previous` methods to allow for asynchronous operations. The user also addressed before-method rejections, ensuring the application gracefully handles potential errors within the tour steps.
vue-jsjavascriptguided-tourcustomizablevue
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