Nick Williams
Product Engineer at Ashby
Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Williams is a product engineer with 14+ years building full-stack web applications across government, enterprise, and startup environments, currently driving product at Ashby from Wales. He combines deep front-end expertise—demonstrated by maintained contributions to popular libraries like headroom.js and enquire.js—with solid back-end experience and design-systems work. Nick reliably translates business needs into technical specs and has a track record of delivering across the full SDLC for organisations including DVLA, ONS, and Nordhealth. An active open-source contributor, he’s removed jQuery dependencies, improved test suites and refactored libraries for maintainability, showing a focus on long-term code health. Comfortable as a hands-on developer or senior individual contributor, he balances pragmatic delivery with clean, reusable UI architecture. His decade-plus freelance work and varied public-sector and startup experience give him an unusual fluency in adapting to different team cultures and constraints.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc Hons) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc Hons) Computer Science at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
gruntjs10
front-end-development10
gruntfile10
grunt-task10
grunt-cli10
testing9
jquery9
css9
react9
babeljs6
html6
internet-explorer6
event-listener6
ecmascript6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
WickyNilliams/enquire.js
Jul 2012 - Dec 2021
Awesome Media Queries in JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:187 commits, 11 PRs, 13 pushes in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily worked on the enquire.js library, focusing on UI and functionality improvements. They updated the license information and added new features. The user implemented a grunt build task including minification and jasmine integration for unit tests, correcting links to downloads in documentation. Further code changes included improvements to the functional test suite.
javascriptmedia-queriesqueries
WickyNilliams/headroom.js
Aug 2013 - Oct 2020
Give your pages some headroom. Hide your header until you need it
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 1 review, 294 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on the development and improvement of the front-end components of the `headroom.js` library. They removed jQuery dependencies and fixed CSS paths. Further contributions included introducing options for tolerance and custom classes, as well as, support for multiple classes, which enhanced the library's flexibility and customization options. Additionally, the user refactored code for better readability and maintained the project by updating the documentation.
headroomheaderuntilphphide
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