Reece Williams
Chief Technology Officer at Layer
Nashville Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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RockstarReece Williams is a CTO and hands-on protocol engineer with eight years building production-grade blockchain infrastructure, developer tooling, and interchain systems from Nashville. He has led upgrades and launches across Cosmos-based projects—driving faster SDK upgrades, building Spawn (local-interchain/testnet automation), and contributing to the Juno smart-contract ecosystem by modernizing Cosmos SDK integrations and oracle modules. Reece blends low-level systems expertise (Linux, Redis, MySQL, scripting) with multi-language engineering (Rust, Go, Python, Java, TypeScript) to ship end-to-end developer experiences like dockerized templates, cross-platform tooling, and documentation CI. His work spans high-stakes deployments including tokenized assets and CBDC prototypes, demonstrating an ability to translate complex consensus and interoperability requirements into auditable, production systems. Colleagues rely on him for rapid prototyping and shrink-wrapping lengthy upgrade cycles into hours-long procedures, a productivity gain that’s become a recurring theme in his career.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (3)
blockchain10
cosmos-sdk10
go10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
CosmosContracts/juno
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Open Source Platform for Interoperable Smart Contracts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 releases, 220 reviews, 282 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Reece primarily focused on integrating and upgrading the project with a newer version of the Cosmos SDK. They updated the project's dependencies, modified core application files, and implemented a new upgrade handler. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the genesis file and incorporated new features or improvements to the existing oracle modules for the Juno blockchain.
interoperableethereumcosmos-sdkblockchainsolidity
Lay3rLabs/wavs-foundry-template
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 17 reviews, 61 PRs in 1 month
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