Will Shown
Senior Design Engineer at Accord Cooperative
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolWill Shown is a Senior Design Engineer in Seattle with 11 years crafting pragmatic, accessible products for professional and expert users. He blends hands-on engineering, product design, and occasional writing and research to deliver production-ready UI systems, design systems, and developer-facing component libraries. Will co-founded Accord Cooperative and led its design and engineering—shipping a Slack app, website, and comprehensive documentation—while also contributing extensible UI architecture and design packages at DXOS and Fluent component libraries at Microsoft. He has a track record of turning complex workflows into testable, iterative experiences, from security consoles at CrowdStrike to medical education at AMBOSS. A cognitive science graduate from McGill, he brings a human-centered, interdisciplinary approach that surfaces subtle usability gains as well as community-building through nonprofit leadership.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts and Science Honours Cognitive Science (computer science cog. psychology linguistics neuroscience philosophy), Bachelor of Arts and Science Honours Cognitive Science (computer science cog. psychology linguistics neuroscience philosophy) at McGill University
north american english, mexican spanish, canadian french, Japanese, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (190)
xaml10
storybook10
ui-components10
windows10
testing10
bots10
design-patterns10
svg10
3d10
custom-element10
wpf10
p2p10
javascript10
linux10
automerge10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ch-ui-dev/ch-ui
Feb 2024 - Apr 2026
some ui tools for humans
Contributions:71 PRs, 162 pushes, 83 branches in 2 years 2 months
lumine-gl/lumine
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:44 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 6 months
interactionwebgljavascriptlayoutthreejs
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