Dai Williams
Engineering Manager - Ventura Streaming TV OS at The Trade Desk
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDai Williams is a hands-on engineering leader with 11 years of experience building cross-platform streaming clients and design systems, currently managing Ventura Streaming TV OS at The Trade Desk. He has a strong track record at Plex and the BBC, driving initiatives like server-driven UIs, a company-wide design system, Kotlin and Jetpack Compose adoption, and FAST/live streaming features across Android, TV, iOS and web. Dai blends people leadership with deep technical ownership—mentoring leads, shaping architecture, and coordinating multi-team rollouts that reduced client duplication and sped feature delivery. A former founder who scaled a global mobile distribution business to £4M turnover, he brings product intuition and operational rigor uncommon in pure engineering managers. Based in Stevenage, he combines platform-level thinking with hands-on Android expertise and a taste for snowboarding.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computing, Distinction, Master of Science (MSc), Computing, Distinction at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
Github Skills (83)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Daio-io/daio.io
Feb 2015 - Dec 2019
New personal website written with Io.js, Koa, Semantic UI, MongoDB and Handlebars (WIP)
Contributions:2 PRs, 85 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 10 months
koa-jswipnodejshandlebarskoa
Daveloper87/mywebsite
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:46 PRs, 84 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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