Skippy Williams
Innovation Specialist
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSkippy Williams is an Innovation Specialist with nine years of experience designing and delivering mission-driven digital products from Oakland, CA. They blend product leadership and hands-on delivery—rescuing and growing Voter's Edge at MapLight with a small team, doubling engagement and increasing donations tenfold—while now focusing on civic-facing innovation at 18F. Skippy excels at shipping high-quality experiences on tight budgets, mentoring teammates’ growth, and aligning product work with public-good outcomes. Pragmatic, creative, and customer-focused, they pair a Computer Science background from UC Santa Barbara with a track record of turning constrained resources into lasting impact.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara
Github Skills (20)
identifiable10
matching10
policies10
recurly10
pii9
privacy-preserving8
security7
development-machine7
privacy5
php4
tax4
risk-assessment4
shell3
cms3
origami3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
maplight/ca-ballots
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
maplight/votersedge-static-pages
Sep 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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