Derek Williams
Lead Developer Frontend & Accessibility Specialist at Top American Financial Investments Firm
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Williams is a Lead Developer and Application Architect with 13+ years building high-performance, secure web platforms across finance, government, and healthcare. He specializes in Micro Frontend architecture (Module Federation), platform modernization, and enterprise-grade WCAG-compliant accessibility, often leading offshore teams through complex migrations from legacy stacks to Vue 3, Vite, and modern CI/CD pipelines. Derek combines hands-on engineering—real-time geospatial visualizations, hybrid mobile WebView integrations, and Percona MySQL/Cloud infrastructure—with developer experience innovations like “Accessibility-First” E2E testing and AI-assisted test/documentation generation. Comfortable at both system-design and implementation levels, he has been the go-to triage lead for high-stakes online banking incidents and large government modernization projects. Beyond shipping features, he builds the tooling, automated pipelines, and team practices that sustain long-term reliability and compliance. An educator by training with a background in applied mathematics and computer engineering, he brings analytical rigor to pragmatic engineering leadership.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Education (BEd), I/S Mathematics & Physics, Bachelor of Education (BEd), I/S Mathematics & Physics at Western UniversityDiploma, Computer Software Engineering, Diploma, Computer Software Engineering at Fanshawe College
Github Skills (26)
wcag8
meta8
code-library7
recaptcha6
metadata6
multilingual6
side-bar6
meta-tags5
google-recaptcha5
seo5
integrate5
javascript4
cakephp4
vue4
composer4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
derekvasilich/rigid-water-md
Nov 2012 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 4 years
derekvasilich/abaconstruction
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:138 pushes in 5 months
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