Will Piers
Frontend Engineer at The Feed
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolWill Piers is a frontend engineer with 13 years of experience building performant, user-focused web applications, particularly in the JavaScript ecosystem. He has shipped production React, Webpack and Node-based UIs for companies like InfluxData, Aetna/CVS Health, Hotel Engine, and contributes to notable open-source projects such as Chronograf and InfluxDB. Will pairs a formal math background with a pragmatic, hands-on approach—preferring to solve problems by building rather than debating theory—and advocates for pair programming to accelerate learning and quality. He’s experienced modernizing legacy frontends into TypeScript and component-driven architectures, improving performance and developer ergonomics along the way. Based in Broomfield, Colorado, he also brings cross-platform experience from work on Lightning wallet UX and a readiness to talk Bitcoin when the conversation turns to crypto.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at The Starter LeagueBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at Colorado State University
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Github Skills (33)
javascript10
react-native10
electron10
ui-design10
uid10
go10
front-end-development10
influxdb10
react10
visualization9
user-interface9
webpack9
ipc9
webpacker9
visualizations9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/chronograf
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Open source monitoring and visualization UI for the TICK stack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:146 commits, 14 PRs, 33 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on front-end development, contributing to the UI of the Chronograf application. The commits demonstrate the implementation of new features and improvements to the user interface, including components for data visualization and interaction. The user also integrated new features and configuration files. Several commits involved build process and dependency changes, indicating they likely had experience with webpack and other front-end build tools.
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influxdata/influxdb
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:147 commits, 1 issue in 3 months
Contributions summary:Will implemented a React-based user interface for the InfluxDB project, using create-react-app to set up the UI. They worked on integrating the enterprise UI and configurations and focused on setting up the structure for source selection and the management page. The user also refactored different parts of the UI including graph rendering and the notification system, along with making changes to the app's routing and adding the login button.
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