Will Shown
Senior Design Engineer at Glade.ai
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
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Github Skills (200)
threejs10
ui-components10
testing10
bots10
component-library10
svg10
3d10
html10
libp2p10
nodejs10
protocols10
svelte10
webrtc10
uwp10
css10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lumine-gl/lumine
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:44 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 6 months
interactionwebgljavascriptlayoutthreejs
thure/cielab-curved-palette
May 2021 - Feb 2022
A tool which generates accessible sRGB color palettes by drawing bézier curves through CIELAB color space.
Contributions:29 commits, 23 PRs, 85 pushes in 8 months
color-spacesrgbcielabaccessiblecolor-palettes
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