Reese Williams
Software Engineer, Developer Productivity at Stripe
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolReese Williams is a software engineer focused on developer productivity with eight years of experience building tools and infrastructure at companies like Stripe and HubSpot. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, Reese blends front-end polish with backend developer tooling, exemplified by UI and accessibility enhancements to the widely used docs.rs crates documentation site. Comfortable across Ruby and modern web stacks, they’ve shipped features that improve developer onboarding and day-to-day ergonomics, such as clipboard-driven dependency copy functionality and thoughtful accessibility fixes. Formerly trained in music performance, Reese brings a disciplined, detail-oriented approach and a knack for user-centered design to engineering problems. Colleagues know them as an "internet man" who moves effortlessly between product-facing front-end work and internal developer platform improvements.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music, Music Performance, General, Bachelor of Music, Music Performance, General at New England Conservatory of Music
Github Skills (15)
type-system10
typescript10
javascript10
typesc10
sorbet10
user-interface10
language-server10
language-server-protocol10
subprocess10
ruby10
testing9
html9
accessibility9
build-automation8
rust5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/docs.rs
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
crates.io documentation generator
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Reese focused on enhancing the user interface of the docs.rs website. Their work included adding a feature to allow users to copy crate dependency information, incorporating a clipboard icon for this functionality. They also addressed accessibility concerns by replacing `aria-hidden` with an `aria-label` attribute. Furthermore, the user added tests to verify the visibility of the clipboard icon under the correct conditions.
documentation-generator
reese/gatsby-plugin-stork
Dec 2020 - May 2021
A Gatsby plugin for generating Stork search indexes.
Contributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 62 commits in 5 months
gatsby-plugingatsbystorksearchstatic-site
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