Garth Williams is a founder and technical leader with 15 years of experience blending software engineering, performance marketing, and forensic audit work from Portland, OR. He built and scaled CPG and PPC businesses—managing half a million units sold and $60K monthly ad spend—before founding CLAWBACK.IO to lead forensic audits on trademark bidding, cookie stuffing, and ad transparency. As a senior software engineer and full‑stack contributor to projects like the Cerebral state management library, he brings hands‑on coding, debugging, and test-driven improvements to complex systems. Comfortable running operations, supply chains, and enterprise IT, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with rigorous technical discipline. Colleagues know him for translating messy ad ecosystem signals into auditable, actionable findings that drive recovery and accountability.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Linfield University
Declarative state and side effects management for popular JavaScript frameworks
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:37 commits, 49 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Garth primarily contributed to the Cerebral state management library by implementing new features, fixing bugs, and refactoring existing code. Their work includes enhancing the `controller.extends` functionality, adding support for signals on the `dummyController`, and adding features to the http provider. They also focused on improving the operator display names for better debugging and added several test helpers.
Contributions:125 commits, 1 PR, 153 pushes in 2 years 5 months
reactstatelessfollowmaterial-designmaterial-ui
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Garth Williams - Founder & Head Of Audit at CLAWBACK.IO