Michael Williams
Senior Technical Writer at Self-employed
Wendell, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Williams is a Senior Technical Writer with 12 years of experience blending front-end development, animation, and instructional design to make complex software approachable. With a BFA in Animation and Interactive Design, he parlayed early art and teaching experience into roles at Liferay and Orange Logic where he authored docs, built styled front-end components (contributing to liferay-docs), and produced polished video tutorials. Now at Epic Games and as the solo developer behind indie title Elevader, he bridges game design, technical communication, and multimedia production to create engaging developer and user-facing content. Known for turning visual storytelling into clear learning experiences, he often pairs code-level precision with cinematic editing to improve adoption and onboarding.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Art with a concentration in Animation and Interactive Design, BFA, Art with a concentration in Animation and Interactive Design at East Carolina University
Github Skills (7)
css10
jspx10
web-development10
jsp10
javascript9
alloy9
liferay8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
liferay/liferay-docs
Apr 2014 - Jul 2020
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1232 commits, 13 PRs, 77 comments in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael added and updated the CSS and JSP files related to a carousel portlet in the Liferay documentation repository. They implemented styling for the carousel body, bounding box, menu bar, and indicators, as well as button styles and JavaScript functionality. The user also appears to have added sample images to the `devGuide` folder.
mwilliams2014/liferay-portal
Jan 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:15 PRs, 163 pushes, 71 branches in 5 years 6 months
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