Byron Williams

Byron Williams CV

• Phone: +44 7748128709
• Email: byron@112percent.com
• Github: byronwilliams

Work Experience

Sticker it, Totnes/Bristol/Remote (October 2019 - October 2024)
Go + TypeScript Full Stack Developer.

• Automating Sticker Printing
  • TypeScript/Go/GraphQL: Creation of workflow software to help with the automation of website order to the printing of a sticker, including QA. API integrations with Shopify, Sendcloud, and Tilia Phoenix.
  • Go + Postgres: Pricing Calculator to calculate stickers in multiple currencies based upon multiple graduated pricing bands.
  • Go: Customer designs processing pipeline to export cut files to remote machines.
  • DevOps: Github Actions, Linux Server admin

Fika Studio, Bath/Remote (March 2019 - October 2019)
JavaScript/TypeScript Full Stack Developer. Contract

• Marketplace for large machinery
  • TypeScript (NodeJS): API for CRUD operations including: Database migrations with knex, login/register flow, emails and billing. Bulk ETL for migrating new customers with custom import UI.
  • JavaScript: React development using Redux and Sagas.
  • Go: Search API to interface with App Engine Search

Veea, Bath (September 2018 - January 2019)
Go Developer for Business Development. Contract

• Go: ONVIF Camera Discovery
  • Go API fronting ONVIF discovery which remembers settings, stream names. Docker + Swarm
• NodeJS: Customer Success
  • Building technical solutions using the Veea Edge Platform. Docker + Swarm
  • Containerisation of OpenCV based vehicle recognition and internal library for controlling Z-Wave devices

Virtuosys, Bath (November 2017 - August 2018)
Go Developer. Contract

• Go + Linux Sys Admin: Customisation of Docker Registry authentication and mesh wide proxy caching.
• Go: Design of device communication from Edge to cloud, Proxying and joining microservices together
• Winner of Hacktrain 2017 Hackathon for a predictive maintenance system.

Virtuosys, Bath (February 2017 - June 2017)
Go Developer. Contract

• Go: IoT device communication
  • Development of dynamic StrongSwan based IPSec gateway
  • Certificate Generation and Device Staging interface

2P Ventures, Bath (September 2016 - December 2016)
Senior Full Stack Developer. Contract

• NodeJS: Client Specific Analytics Tool
  • AWS Lambda NodeJS Express endpoint which ingests user actions, page views and ecommerce purchase events and stores them in DynamoDB and Redshift.
  • Plugin driven queue used (Redshift, BigQuery and S3).

Swoon Editions, London (May 2015 - June 2016): Senior Full Stack Developer

• Python: Compare the Furniture Market (Python+MySQL) - Project Lead
  • Scrapy based Website Scraping to compare furniture ranges and price points and throughput analysis of competitor stock levels and pricing changes
• Python: Logistics Interface (Python+MySQL) - Project Lead
  • Retrieve + Send Parcels through Interlink API
• Building a Logistics Operation - Project Lead
  • Heuristics based selection of carrier + packages. Scheduling deliveries with multiple carriers & price points
• Manage AWS Server Infrastructure using Ansible Stack for server deployment.
• Chrome Extensions to aide internal customers

Cloudfind, Bath (Dec 2013 - May 2015): Full Stack Developer

• Python: Writing a webapp using Django + Postgres.
  • Performance tuning both Postgres and our SQL queries
• Manage AWS Server Infrastructure using Salt Stack for server deployment.
• Created a Go based Hipchat bot to deliver better deployments.

Projects

Education

De Montfort University, Leicester (2007 - 2011)

• 1st Class BSc (Hons) Computer Science
• Year 3: Fuzzy Logic, Data Mining, Software Engineering Principles
• Year 2: Systems Programming, OO Software Design & Development, Data Specification & Design C Programming
• Year 1: Database Development, Computer Science Fundamentals, Introduction to Haskell and C++

Interests, Activities & Other

• Driving License: Full
• Languages: English (Native), Swedish (Intermediate, UISS certifcate August 2017)
• I keep 25 colonies of honey bees in 4 locations in Devon.