James Williams
Principal Engineer at Points (a Plusgrade company)
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJames Williams is a Principal Engineer based in Guelph, Ontario with 11 years of experience driving front-end architecture, developer experience, and long-term maintainability for enterprise-scale storefronts. At Points he has progressed from web developer to principal engineer, leading cross-team technical strategy and balancing feature delivery with technical debt reduction. He specializes in JavaScript, React, WebComponents and developer tooling (Node CLIs), and has also built backend APIs in Python/Flask to support platform evolution. Known for tackling the “less glamorous” but critical work of keeping large systems sustainable, he blends hands-on implementation with coaching and process improvements. James’s background spans agency delivery, product optimization, and internal tooling—giving him a pragmatic appreciation for both client-facing UX and developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Multimedia Web Design Computing & Technology Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, BSc (Hons) Multimedia Web Design Computing & Technology Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia at University of GloucestershireGCSEs & A-Levels, GCSEs & A-Levels at Royal Hospital School
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Github Skills (44)
wordpress-themes10
netlify10
feature-toggle10
wordpress10
wordpress-plugin10
feature-flags9
gatsbyjs9
react8
gatsby8
bot-framework6
html6
apple-pay6
nodejs6
csharp6
sdk6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jamesrwilliams/jamesrwilliams.github.io
Jan 2016 - Jul 2020
Personal GitHub profile pages for James R. Williams. Vanilla HTML page utilizing the GitHub REST API.
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 6 months
restrest-api
jamesrwilliams/personal-site
Oct 2018 - Aug 2022
The source code for my personal portfolio site and blog. It is built with Gatsby, deployed with Netlify.
Contributions:6 releases, 372 commits, 83 PRs in 3 years 10 months
gatsbyjsnetlifygatsby
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