william

william

web & iOS engineer in paris, he/him

About

design & code.

product engineer crafting polished & intuitive UIs.

Contact

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Side Projects

2023

3-day hackathon project: product demos are boring, Liveroom lets you instantly join your customer in your product with live cursors, video calls and interactions

2023

minimal and almost-un-opinionated starter template for building accessible and performant websites

Writing

2023

reflecting on building consistent, robust and dynamic web experiences from static designs

Projects

2023

a go-to place for artists to showcase their art and universe

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Remote
  • building full-stack features
  • creating a custom UI component library
  • conducting user-research interviews
  • prototyping, UX and product-thinking

stack: Next.js, tRPC, Tailwind, Radix UI

2022 — Now
Remote

product and user focused tasks, including

  • prototyping, creating low-fi wireframes, conducting user-research interviews
  • developing custom UI libraries and foundations for a Design System
  • integrating a headless CMS with a custom Frontend
  • contributing to an existing consumer & SaaS app to improve Frontend performance, UX and accessibility
  • migrating legacy code to modern technologies

stack: React/Next.js, Astro, Radix UI, Tailwind, Contentful CMS, tRPC, Prisma, vanilla CSS, Storybook

2020 — 2022
Paris
  • building user-facing and internal products (from design to QA)
  • designing APIs following DDD principles (Domain Driven Design), contracts and specifications, defining architecture and technical choices
  • actively participating to roadmap elaboration and technical specifications
  • onboarding newcomers and mentoring junior developers
  • responsible for the hiring process: screening candidates, conducting interviews and technical test reviews

noticeable outcomes:

  • designed + implemented a Design System including a component library, style guide and design tokens
  • hired 6 full-time Frontend Engineers
  • successfully shipped 2 complete redesigns + a migration from a monorepo to a DDD architecture

stack: TypeScript, React, Next.js, CSS-in-JS, NestJS