Jared Williams
Senior UI Engineer at CarGurus
Revere, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJared Williams is a Senior UI Engineer with 15 years of front-end experience, currently building polished, performant user interfaces at CarGurus from his base in Revere, Massachusetts. He has a strong track record modernizing legacy front-end codebases—splitting monoliths into single-responsibility modules, migrating CSS to modular architectures, and shaving seconds off page load times. Jared pairs deep Chrome DevTools expertise (he’s contributed keyboard-shortcut and documentation fixes to the official DevTools docs) with hands-on experience in Angular, Node.js, D3 and build tooling like Gulp and SASS. He’s led and mentored teams through dashboard redesigns, analytics integrations, and accessibility improvements for data-heavy applications. Comfortable across product, UX and implementation, Jared focuses on reusable components and measurable performance wins. His background includes both agency work for high-profile clients and in-house engineering for SaaS and media platforms, giving him a practical, user-centered approach to front-end architecture.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate in Applied Science Degree, Multimedia, Associate in Applied Science Degree, Multimedia at ITT Technical InstituteLiberal Arts, Liberal Arts at Middlesex Community College
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
jquery10
keyboard-shortcuts10
shortcuts10
canvas10
css10
guideline10
devtools10
front-end-development10
html10
viewport10
developer-tools10
documentation10
accessibility9
git9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
isobar-us/code-standards
Jun 2011 - Jul 2012
Isobar Front-end development coding standards. Memorize them BY HEART.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily focused on enhancing the front-end aspects of the project. They made significant changes to the `index.php` and `css/style.css` files, modifying the layout, visual elements, and positioning of the "fork me" badge. Further contributions included fixing logo display issues, updating JavaScript and CSS to correct visual and functional issues, and optimizing the site for print, demonstrating a focus on usability and visual presentation. The user also made contributions to the sections content, including the accessibility sections, and the revision history.
eslintcssisobarjavascriptcss3
GoogleChrome/devtools-docs
Jun 2013 - Jan 2015
The legacy documentation for Chrome DevTools.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily focused on updating and correcting the keyboard shortcuts documentation for Chrome DevTools. They added, removed, and reworded shortcuts, fixed formatting inconsistencies, and corrected resource paths. Their contributions aimed to improve the clarity, accuracy, and usability of the shortcuts documentation, and fixing reported issues. The user also addressed conflicts from merging branches.
developer-toolschromedevtoolschrome-devtoolschrome-extension
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