Cecil Williams
Senior Consultant at Speaking Engagements
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCecil Williams is a seasoned senior consultant and coach with over three decades of software and engineering experience, currently helping teams deliver high-quality code and agile practices hands-on. He blends deep technical craft—TDD, BDD, CI/CD, pair and mob programming—with practical process coaching drawn from lean, Extreme Programming, and Modern Agile refined since 1997. Cecil has taught university courses, delivered global corporate training, and spoken widely on topics like mob programming and TDD, bringing a teacher’s mindset to consulting. His background as a radiological engineer and early FORTRAN developer gives him uncommon experience applying disciplined engineering practices in safety-critical environments. Comfortable with both Fortune 100 enterprises and startups across industries (energy, healthcare, finance, agriculture), he focuses on pragmatic improvements that speed delivery while raising quality.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Nuclear Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Nuclear Engineering at Iowa State UniversityMaster's Degree Information Technology, Master's Degree Information Technology at Kaplan UniversityMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration at Illinois State University
Github Skills (15)
custom-domain7
agile6
saas3
deploying3
hosting3
web-application3
amplify2
aws-amplify2
aws2
static-site2
serverless2
github-enterprise2
jamstack2
tdd1
testing1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cecilgwilliams/TDDWorkshop
Mar 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
cecilgwilliams/GildedRose-Refactoring-Kata
Mar 2020 - Dec 2023
Starting code for the GildedRose Refactoring Kata in many programming languages.
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years 9 months
refactoring-kataprogramming-languagesrefactoringlanguagesgildedrose
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