Elliot Williams
Senior Software Engineer at Form3
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolElliot Williams is a Senior Software Engineer and engineering leader based in Cardiff with 11 years’ experience building resilient, high-throughput distributed payment systems and leading teams through complex platform migrations. He has driven key projects at Form3—authoring the first Faster Payments gateway, designing SWIFT integrations and migrating legacy Java systems into Go microservices—while embedding sustainable practices like incident rehearsals, demos and psychological safety. Comfortable shipping code and coaching engineers, Elliot combines hands-on backend work (notably Go contributions to open-source projects such as a popular Spotify API wrapper) with product-focused delivery and clear stakeholder communication. He’s pragmatic under pressure, experienced in multi-cloud Kubernetes deployments, and keeps learning (CKAD is on his to-do list), all while pursuing unusual hobbies like beekeeping and modular synthesis that reflect a curious, systems-oriented mind.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computing, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computing at Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant / University of Wales Trinity Saint DavidYsgol Tre-Gib Comprehensive School
English, Welsh
Github Skills (11)
api-rest10
rest-api10
go10
go-testing10
spotify-api10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
context-api9
context-manager9
http-client9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zmb3/spotify
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
A Go wrapper for the Spotify Web API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Elliot contributed to the Spotify Go wrapper by adding functionality for saving shows for the current user and retrieving episode information. They implemented a `SaveShowsForCurrentUser` function, which involved creating an HTTP request. The user also fixed an issue by using the correct `ID` type and incorporated the context to `modifyLibrary` calls and `NextOpt` http request, demonstrating an understanding of asynchronous operations. The user also added and updated testing functionality for the implemented features.
golangapispotifyweb-apispotify-web
elliotwms/fakediscord
Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
Test your Discord bots!
Contributions:38 reviews, 74 PRs, 107 pushes in 2 years
botdiscordtesting
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