Jack Williams
Founding Engineer at Inngest
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Williams is a Founding Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating high-throughput, event-driven distributed systems, specializing in TypeScript, GraphQL and developer experience. He has led backend and full-stack efforts across startups and scale-ups, shipping production systems using AWS/GCP, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Redis and Go. At Inngest he contributes to the leading workflow orchestration platform and has improved their CLI in Go, adding replay and robustness features that reflect a pragmatic, ops-minded approach. Previously he built real-time microservice platforms and APIs, balancing system design with hands-on implementation from hardware to cloud. Based in the UK, he combines deep production debugging skills with a focus on smooth developer workflows that reduce friction for teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE English Language English Literature Mathematics Biology Chemistry Physics I.T. Music History, GCSE English Language English Literature Mathematics Biology Chemistry Physics I.T. Music History at Winchcombe SchoolFoundation Course in Art & Design, Foundation Course in Art & Design at University of GloucestershireA-Level Photography I.T. Psychology, A-Level Photography I.T. Psychology at Balcarras Sixth Form
English
Github Skills (8)
command-line-interface10
go10
cli10
command-line10
workflow-engine9
serverless8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
inngest/inngest
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
The leading workflow orchestration platform. Run stateful step functions and AI workflows on serverless, servers, or the edge.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 318 reviews, 240 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the Inngest CLI tool, demonstrating expertise in Go. Their work included fixing nil pointer errors and adding functionality for specifying the hostname when starting the development server. The user refactored flags, re-added functionalities, and introduced replay functionality to the CLI tool's run command.
queuesserverlessaws-lambdaevent-drivenaws
jpwilliams/gitree
Aug 2017 - Sep 2021
Print a directory tree that shows Git status and ignores files dictated by .gitignore.
Contributions:79 commits, 52 PRs, 100 pushes in 4 years 1 month
cligitignoredirectory-treerenamedstatus
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