Dai Williams
Senior Software Engineering Manager - Ventura Streaming TV OS at The Trade Desk
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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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
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computing, Master of Science (MSc), Computing at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
Github Skills (55)
android-library10
tdd10
chai10
bdd10
kotlin-android10
testing9
javascript9
assertion-framework9
android9
code-sharing8
editing8
android-tv8
npm-package8
android-architecture-components8
menubar8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Daveloper87/mywebsite
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:46 PRs, 84 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
project-website
Daio-io/wax
May 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 13 PRs in 2 months
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