Jason Williams
IT Manager at BELFOR UK Ltd
South Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Williams is an experienced IT manager with 13+ years delivering ICT support and service delivery across local government and private sectors, currently leading IT at BELFOR UK. He combines hands-on technical depth—from legacy Microsoft/Novell server estates, SCCM/MDT desktop rollouts and Exchange administration to modern DevOps and Rust-based contributions—with practical ITIL-aligned management and project collaboration. Jason has repeatedly scaled desktop rollout and support operations, built cross-functional relationships with project teams, and managed service desks and field engineering groups. An active open-source contributor, he has added editor features to the popular styled-components VS Code extension and contributed to high-profile Rust projects like Servo and Boa, showing a rare blend of systems-level programming and end-user support experience. Colleagues value his pragmatic troubleshooting skills and flexible, relationship-driven approach to delivering complex corporate IT projects.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Queen Elizabeths Mercian School, TamworthStaffordshire University
Github Skills (35)
parserator10
tokenize10
javascript10
parser10
servo10
lexer10
temporal10
css10
typescript10
build-system10
styled-components10
vscode-extension10
intellisense10
tokenizer10
api10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
styled-components/vscode-styled-components
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Syntax highlighting for styled-components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 29 reviews, 101 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the VS Code extension for styled-components. Their work included adding features like a color picker, implementing a command for auto-inserting colons and semicolons, and improving the expand template string feature. They also addressed bug fixes, particularly related to color highlighting and styling, and supported Next.js style tag syntax. The user demonstrated an understanding of JavaScript, TypeScript, and VS Code extension APIs.
styled-componentssyntax-highlightingintellisensetypescriptjavascript
rust-lang/rust-enhanced
May 2016 - Oct 2016
The official Sublime Text 4 package for the Rust Programming Language
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 8 commits, 134 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jason contributed to the development of a Sublime Text 4 package for the Rust Programming Language. Their work focused on integrating syntax checking functionality into the editor, including adding features like error highlighting and tooltips. The contributions involved modifying the plugin's code to utilize the `cargo rustc` command for syntax validation and displaying the output within the Sublime Text environment. They also addressed bug fixes and improved the overall user experience by implementing UTF-8 decoding.
programming-languagerustsublime-text
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