Jeff Williams
Tech Lead at Cisco
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Williams is a seasoned tech lead and systems-level software engineer with 14 years of experience building resilient networking control-plane and forwarding features, primarily in C on Linux for Cisco's NX-OS MPLS and Segment Routing stacks. He combines deep protocol knowledge (IP, MPLS, LDP, SR, BGP, ISIS) with practical engineering discipline—introducing automated unit testing and streamlined team-local Git workflows to accelerate feature development and reduce integration churn. Comfortable mentoring and scoping complex features, he drives cross-team designs that balance delivery risk and operational maintainability. His background spans embedded and UI work (Qt/C++) to high-availability telecom systems, giving him an uncommon fluency across kernel-adjacent networking, control software, and occasional web/language experimentation in Go, Ruby, and Python. Based in Ottawa, he pairs methodical problem-solving with a preference for elegant, testable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Computer Science, Computer Science, Masters of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Ottawa
Github Skills (54)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jeffwilliams/quartz-flow
Oct 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:69 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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jeffwilliams/basejump
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:33 commits, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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