Rion Williams
Principal Software Engineer, Security Lead at Broadcom Inc.
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolRion Williams is a Staff/Principal software engineer with 13+ years building full-stack and streaming systems for enterprise and Fortune 500 customers, now focused at Confluent after leading streaming and security efforts at Broadcom. He architects and ships end-to-end solutions—moving teams from batch to near real-time pipelines using Kafka, Flink, Beam and cloud migrations—while accelerating delivery (e.g., delivering Cloud Managed DLP in under a year). A multi-time Microsoft MVP and active open-source contributor, he created Apache Beam Kotlin Katas and tools like Glyphfriend, blending practical engineering with community mentorship. He’s known for pragmatic problem solving, fast vulnerability remediation, and fostering learning cultures, and outside work he stays grounded as a family-first traveler, baker, and “bad chess” enthusiast.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Computer Science, Computer Science, 4.0 G.P.A in Computer Science (3.79 Overall), Bachelor's of Computer Science, Computer Science, 4.0 G.P.A in Computer Science (3.79 Overall) at McNeese State University
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Github Skills (159)
icon-pack10
previews10
python10
linq10
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visual-studio10
apache-beam10
streaming10
sendgrid10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rionmonster/ionicons
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
The premium icon font for Ionic Framework
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
ionic-frameworkfontioniciconicon-font
rionmonster/Glyphfriend
Nov 2014 - Jan 2020
Glyphfriend is a Visual Studio Extension to add previews for various icon/glyph fonts to Visual Studio.
Contributions:14 releases, 255 commits, 51 PRs in 5 years 2 months
hacklangglyph-fontsvisual-studio-codevisual-studio-extensionvscode
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