Caleb Williams

With over ten years of experience as a front-end developer and designer, I am passionate about creating user-friendly, accessible, performant web experiences that meet business needs and delight customers.

I specialize in web platform technologies, such as TypeScript, CSS, HTML, Web Components and modern frameworks. Previously I lead the strategy, architecture and development of a design system that supports more than 250 projects across Capital One.

I advocate for customers of all ability levels and coach other developers on best practices and standards for web development. I enjoy sharing my knowledge and expertise through articles, talks and mentoring and I aim to build up and lead others in advancing the web and our products. I am always eager to learn new skills, explore new challenges and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality user experiences.

Experience

• Staff Software Engineer, Front-End • Slack

  Jan. 2024 - Present

  As a staff engineer on the core collaboration team for Slack, I am responsible for building out and maintaining the core functionality of Slack with features touching an estimated 35 million users daily. As a staff engineer I am responsible for delivering high-quality, accessible feature using React in addition to providing technical leadership for other engineers and prototyping new features that will continue to ensure Slack is where work happens.

• Senior Lead Front-End Developer • Capital One

  April 2016 - Dec. 2023

  Lead front-end developer on Capital One's design system. In this role I work with cross-functional teams across the enterprise to deliver accessible, performant, pixel-perfect code to millions of customers.

• Senior Front-End Developer • Barclays

  Feb. 2015 - April 2016

  Responsible for the technical architecture and development of Barclays’ retail online banking platforms using AngularJS, Sass, NodeJS and jQuery.

• Webmaster • Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting

  May 2013 - Feb. 2015

  Managed Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting website using PHP (Wordpress), HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (jQuery and Angular.JS) and search engine optimization