David Williams
Senior Software Engineer at Abatable
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Williams is a Senior Software Engineer and startup builder with 11 years of experience turning ideas into products, having repeatedly taken teams and products from zero to one across multiple ventures. He’s helped scale engineering orgs—from founding early teams at KYND and HeyJobs to growing Stacker’s engineering function from seed to a 20-person org—and now leads engineering at Abatable while co-founding Thinkio. Equally comfortable shipping hands-on full-stack code and shaping hiring, structure, and engineering culture, he has a track record of delivering customer-facing products to revenue within months. His background includes contract work modernizing prototypes for Series A scale and building AI-driven logistics tools at foodpanda, reflecting a pragmatic focus on rapid, scalable delivery. A Durham-educated computer scientist, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep product engineering experience and a knack for turning prototypes into sustainable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First Class, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First Class at Durham University
Github Skills (135)
async-data10
material-ui10
thunk-middleware10
thunk10
visual-studio10
bundler10
client-server10
declarative10
javascript10
react-components10
editor10
mui10
dispatch10
json10
electron10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
davnicwil/react-frontload
Apr 2017 - Oct 2020
Async data loading for React components, on client & server
Contributions:4 releases, 76 commits, 29 PRs in 3 years 7 months
reactclient-serverjavascriptasyncdata-loading
davnicwil/gimme-token
Nov 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
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