Evan Williams
Senior Frontend Engineer at Uber
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Williams is a Senior Frontend Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building high-performance, maintainable JavaScript applications, primarily using React and TypeScript. He has driven large migrations and architectural improvements at scale—leading Zillow’s front-end rearchitecture for Home Loans and migrating major projects to TypeScript and FusionJS RPC at Uber—often yielding substantial SEO, accessibility, and core web vitals gains. Evan combines hands-on coding with team leadership, having led cross-functional teams, hosted regular engineering forums, and guided company-wide standardization efforts. He has a knack for shaving unnecessary complexity—automating module checks to remove thousands of lines of code and reducing page loads from 10+ seconds to under 4 seconds through smarter bundling. Comfortable with build tooling, SSR, and forms/validation frameworks, he focuses on shipping reliable user experiences that are easy to maintain. His background in both product and infrastructure gives him a practical eye for trade-offs that improve developer velocity and customer-facing performance.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, History, 3.34 GPA, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, History, 3.34 GPA at Iowa State University
English
Github Skills (63)
react-hooks10
validation10
node-server10
stub9
yup9
react-native9
validations9
form-builder9
json9
forms9
react-native-web9
server9
state-management8
react8
angularjs8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
m3fawner/eslint-plugin-prefer-ts-over-lodash
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:28 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
m3fawner/ssr-study
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 63 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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