Will Read
Director Of Engineering, Merchandising at Sustainable Magic
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Williams is a seasoned software engineering leader with 16 years of experience who currently serves as Director of Engineering, Merchandising at Kohl's and runs a consultancy, Sustainable Magic. She has a track record of turning technical debt into business value—delivering software that generated $100M in annual revenue and eliminated 100k hours of manual toil—while scaling teams and improving cross-discipline collaboration. Emily blends hands-on engineering (back-end, full-stack, CLI work) with strategic architecture and product-focused coaching, having led large distributed organizations and guided cloud migrations and product-health practices. An active open-source contributor, she has improved developer tooling and UX in notable projects like the Cloud Foundry CLI and RSpec API Documentation. She’s known for fostering psychologically safe teams that surface bold ideas and for pragmatic decisions that avoid risky rewrites while aligning technology to business outcomes. Based in Oakland with roots in the Midwest, she pairs inventor curiosity and lifelong learning with measurable operational and revenue impact.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Purdue University
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Github Skills (25)
json10
ruby-rails10
devise10
rspec10
rails10
ruby10
cf-cli10
go10
api10
activerecord10
cli10
testing9
cloud-foundry9
go-testing9
html9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cli
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
The official command line client for Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:63 commits in 23 days
Contributions summary:Will implemented features related to showing the "user-provided" label in the Cloud Foundry CLI when displaying service information. The changes involved modifying code across multiple files, including the command-line interface, service API, and tests. The primary focus was on enhancing the display of user-provided service information, ensuring accurate representation and usability within the Cloud Foundry environment. This involved modifying code in the Go programming language and interacting with the Cloud Foundry CLI codebase.
foundrycf-clicloud-foundrycloud-foundry-clicli
huginn/huginn
Aug 2015 - Sep 2016
Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 23 PRs, 127 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on enhancing the application's user management and authentication features. They introduced the ability for public signups, modifying the user model, schema, and registration views. Their work also included improving the testing coverage and providing better control over email delivery during development. Furthermore, they addressed an issue with scenario imports and made improvements for scenarios created by different users.
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