Will Barbee (William Barbee)

Associate Director, Software Engineering

• –Lead development strategy and technical direction for the Shidoka Design System and its developer-tooling ecosystem across a 50,000+ employee enterprise organization
• –Set the architecture and evolution of an open-source platform spanning 100+ framework-agnostic Lit components, variants, and patterns consumed by React, Angular, and Svelte applications
• –Conceived, architected, and built Shidoka Studio, an MCP server that integrates the design system into Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, and GitHub Copilot so AI agents can scaffold components and assemble pages from custom-elements.json and Storybook patterns
• –Lead release strategy and adoption through semver, changelogs, migration guides, stakeholder presentations, and rollout coordination across business units
• –Support 200–400 active consumer engineers across React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, and vanilla JavaScript, diagnosing integration, lifecycle, state, and performance issues with a 98% same-day resolution rate

Co-founder & Senior UI Developer

• –Co-founded a paid ad-blocking browser extension that grew to 200,000+ free and paid users with a 4-person team; acquired by Corel in 2021
• –Stayed on at Corel through Aug 2021 to lead architectural documentation and engineering handoff of the Ad Remover product
• –Architected a multi-framework monorepo with Angular, Vue/Nuxt, and KnockoutJS plus shared build infrastructure powering the extension, web dashboard, onboarding flows, and marketing site
• –Owned conversion-optimized UI work including A/B testing, funnel instrumentation, and churn reduction across the paid tier

Freelance Web Developer

• –Build and maintain production React and Next.js applications for long-term clients
• –Current consulting work includes a Supabase-backed React application using aggressive data prefetching and cache orchestration to optimize perceived navigation performance