William Riley
Junior Partner at BarCamp Events
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Riley is a pragmatic product engineer and junior partner based in Austin with 12 years of experience building design-led web products, design systems, and high-performance front ends. He combines hands-on engineering with product strategy, having led product work at Ionic (helping restore confidence in Stencil) and shipped user-centric products as a designer-engineer at Social Assurance. A prolific open-source contributor, he improved documentation, dev-server behavior, telemetry, and CLI features for the widely used Stencil core project, bridging developer UX and tool reliability. He runs a freelance practice (Split Infinities), co-founded agencies and community projects, and organizes BarCamp Events to give back and surface grassroots ideas. Known for focusing on performance, data, and scalable component systems, he brings both technical depth and community-first instincts to cross-disciplinary teams.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
A.A.S, Network & Systems Administration, A.A.S, Network & Systems Administration at Iowa Western Community College
Github Skills (11)
custom-element10
typescript10
typescripts10
web-components10
stencil10
typescript-types10
testing10
documentation9
cli9
css8
javascript7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
stenciljs/core
Jan 2020 - Oct 2021
A toolchain for building scalable, enterprise-ready component systems on top of TypeScript and Web Component standards. Stencil components can be distributed natively to React, Angular, Vue, (+ more) and traditional web applications from a single, framework-agnostic codebase.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:185 reviews, 18 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on improving the documentation and features related to the StencilJS core, a toolchain for building web components. Their contributions included adding documentation output for shadow parts, updating tests within the CLI task generator, and enabling file change events to be passed through the dev-server. Additionally, the user modified code to allow turning off injected hydration stylesheet. The user also contributed by restoring the stats output target and adding telemetry and CLI features.
angularreactstencil-componentstoolchaintypescript
splitinfinities/splitinfinities
Mar 2014 - Feb 2022
Contributions:80 commits, 32 pushes, 6 branches in 8 years
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