Dion Williams
Staff Software Engineer at Stack Overflow
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDion Williams is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years' experience, currently building Stack Overflow for Teams to deliver knowledge-as-a-service to organizations worldwide. Based in Liverpool, he combines deep web and cross-platform expertise with a particular interest in high-performance network programming and low-level input/rendering systems. He has progressed from hands-on application development to technical leadership roles, including leading eCMS teams and shaping architecture at Simpleview before joining Stack Overflow. An active open-source contributor, Dion helped modernize Windows rendering and raw input for the community-maintained OpenJK project, illustrating his comfort working close to the metal as well as in distributed web systems. He adapts quickly to new languages and methodologies and brings a pragmatic, performance-minded approach to building reliable, scalable developer tools.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ysgol BrynrefailBachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, 1st Class with Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, 1st Class with Honours at University of Central Lancashire
English, Welsh
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
c-language10
game-engine10
wp-api10
rendering10
c1110
winapi10
render10
c1710
game-development10
ws-api10
cprogramming-language10
user-input10
jedi8
academia8
instagram-api6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
JACoders/OpenJK
May 2013 - Jun 2019
Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy (SP & MP) + Jedi Outcast (SP only) released by Raven Software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:44 commits, 10 PRs, 11 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Dion primarily contributed to the Windows-specific implementation for the game's rendering system, adding functionality for borderless window modes and window centering. They also implemented raw mouse input support, enhancing input handling on Windows. The commits demonstrate work on low-level rendering and input systems, which directly impacts game performance and user experience. Furthermore, they made architecture-related decisions by integrating various systems such as raw input handling.
gameopenjkravenc-plus-plusjedi-outcast
dionrhys/OpenJK
Jan 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
effortcppjediwindowsraven
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