Williams Adu
Principal Engineer (Architect) at Microsoft
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolWilliams Adu is a Principal Engineer and architect based in Mountain View with nine years of experience building and leading software teams at Microsoft and prior senior roles across Andela and 2U. He blends a telecommunications engineering background with deep software craft—progressing from hands-on development to senior engineering management and now principal architecture—focused on delivering pragmatic, scalable solutions. A prolific problem-solver who blogs and gives free programming lectures, he pairs algorithmic rigor with a talent for translating complex requirements into maintainable systems. Known for mentoring and cross-cultural collaboration across Ghana, Norway, and the U.S., he brings both technical depth and people-first leadership to engineering challenges. Williams also contributes to the broader tech community through public teaching and an upbeat ethos of “value transmitted through technology,” reflecting a rare mix of humility, creativity, and product-minded engineering.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Telecommunications Engineering at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
English, twi
Stackoverflow
159reputation
17kreached
3answers
8questions
Github Skills (60)
kotlin10
swiftui10
cordova10
solidjs10
visionos10
nativescript10
java10
ionic-react10
ionic-framework10
vue10
android10
visionpro9
bull9
javascript9
ios9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aduwillie/ad-server
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
A simple node.js server
Contributions:30 commits, 4 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 3 months
node-js-servernode-jsnodejsserverserver-js
aduwillie/ad-barrel
May 2018 - Mar 2020
This a data mapper project.
Contributions:2 releases, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
databasedata-mappermapper
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