Will King
Software Engineer at Snowflake
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill King is a self-taught software engineer with a decade of experience translating product and brand strategy into polished front-end experiences, currently building at Snowflake after a stint as a Design Engineer at Crunchy Data. He blends user research, interface design, and development to smooth the handoff from design to production, emphasizing clear communication across product, design, and engineering teams. His background includes leading development teams at Skillcrush and hands-on contributions to open-source projects like elm-live, where he improved developer UX through UI, CSS, and test-suite updates. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, he brings a practical design-led approach to front-end engineering and developer tooling. Notably, his career began in industrial and product design, which informs a strong sense for craft and usability that shows up in both consumer interfaces and developer-facing tools.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Florida CollegeAuburn University
Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
elm10
testing9
javascript9
responsive-design9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wking-io/elm-live
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
⚡ A flexible dev server for Elm. Live reload included.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 278 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on updating and maintaining the user interface and functionality of the `elm-live` project. They made updates to the test suite by adjusting it to work with the new binary and command structure of Elm. They also refactored the code by adding HTML to the project and working on the CSS. Overall, the contributions are geared towards improving the usability of the project as a live reloading dev server for elm.
devreloadlive-reloadelmdev-server
skillcrush/skillcrush-104
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Skillcrush 104 class fun!
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 2 days
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on front-end development within the repository. They added an HTML file and a corresponding CSS stylesheet to create a webpage with advice. Furthermore, the user updated the main index page, linking to their newly created advice page. They also added a meta tag for responsive design.
skillcrush
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