Will Barbee (William Barbee)

Associate Director, Software Engineering

• –Lead development of Shidoka, an open-source, framework-agnostic design system built in Lit — 30+ production web components adopted organization-wide across React, Angular, and Svelte applications (3,100+ weekly npm downloads)
• –Maintain 98% same-day resolution rate on developer support requests serving 200–400+ consuming engineers
• –Own release operations including versioning, changelogs, release presentations, and cross-team coordination
• –Design component APIs that reduce cognitive load and align with developer mental models, informed by behavioral science background
• –Serve as Security Champion, representing the design system on the enterprise cybersecurity guild
• –Drive developer adoption through documentation, migration guides, and direct engineering support across multiple business units

Independent Consultant

• –Maintain a 7-year client relationship delivering a full-stack web presence for a landscape design firm — design, development, SEO, and ongoing maintenance using React/Next.js
• –Deliver responsive, performance-optimized sites with modern tooling (Next.js, Tailwind, Vercel) from concept through deployment

Sr. UI Developer

• –Acquisition hire — led knowledge transfer and codebase documentation to transition Ad Remover product to new team

Co-founder, Sr. UI Developer & Designer

• –Co-founded and built front-end for a paid ad-blocking browser extension from inception through acquisition by Corel
• –Architected multi-framework monorepo (Angular, Vue.js/Nuxt, KnockoutJS) using Lerna
• –Owned UX/UI design in Sketch and Figma; designed HTML email campaigns and Google ad creatives
• –Designed and executed A/B tests to optimize conversion funnel and reduce churn