# Colin Williams > Senior Software Engineer (front-end) Location: Portland, Oregon, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/colinwilliams Experienced Senior Front-End Engineer with over 15 years of expertise building responsive, high-performance, scalable applications. Expert in React, Next.js, and TypeScript with deep knowledge of performance optimization and component-driven architecture. Team leader and mentor who champions UI design systems, accessibility, and modern front-end tools. Skilled at cross-functional collaboration with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Primer.ai Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Portland, Oregon, United States • Delivered custom interfaces for a high-profile client, securing multiple annual renewals. • Built a WebAssembly-based data table enabling real-time client-side Boolean queries. • Overhauled a mapping solution for secure, airgapped environments. • Maintained a design system, building reusable components, reducing development time across teams. ### Senior Software Engineer @ adidas Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Portland, Oregon, United States I worked primarily with the Yeezy brand, building out a highly immersive experience that was built in three.js. I helped transitioned to using React 3 Fiber giving us the benefits of three.js, with the benefits of the React library. Quickly prototyped solutions that were shown to key stakeholders. I also worked with Ivy Park, helping the experience launch within adidas's CMS framework while still providing an experience unique to the brand. ### Principal Web Developer @ AKQA Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Portland, Oregon Area Lead front-end developer, helping manage teams building SPAs for enterprise clients. Build a headless React experience on top of AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) for Station Casinos, which enabled them to deploy a single instance of AEM across all their properties with a unique look and feel for each property. Did a lot of deep custom development specifically for Palms Casino. Served as team lead, managing work across 5 developers and coordinating between frontend, backend, design and project management. Worked on US Soccer, a headless experience built with React on the frontend, and Sitecore serving as the CMS. Mentored and managed multiple developers. ### Senior Web Developer @ AKQA Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Portland, Oregon Area JavaScript — vanilla, React, Angular and CSS animations for smooth transitions for companies including Nike, and Verizon ### Web Developer @ AKQA Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Helped build and maintain Nike.com on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) ### Interactive Developer @ The Good Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Portland, Oregon Area Served on many projects as lead front end developer, or sole front end developer working with action and outdoor brands including Bell Helmets, Nike, and Converse. Provided everything responsive design to full ecommerce stores. Primarily worked with Magento and Wordpress. ### Adjunct Instructor @ University of Oregon Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Eugene, Oregon I taught Digital Arts courses at the University of Oregon. Classes include Digital Drawing, Interactive Programming, a Photoshop workshop and Summer Design Camp. ### Front end developer/designer @ AdPearance Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 Practiced pixel-perfect web development. Websites for a range of clients using html5, css3, javascript/jQuery, php, SEO, e-commerce, and CMS's including, but not limited to: ExpressionEngine, WordPress, and Magento. ### Development Assistant @ RISD Media + Partners Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 While RISD was working on their new site, I created some micro websites for different departments. I also worked with the designer critiquing how the new site would look and function. (I also edited video, and just generally did what was needed.) ## Education ### Master of Fine Arts in Digital + Media Rhode Island School of Design Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 ### Teaching Certificate in The Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning Brown University Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 ### Bachelor of Fine Arts in Digital Arts University of Oregon Jan 2003 – Jan 2008 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/its-colin - Website: http://colinwilliams.org --- Source: https://flows.cv/colinwilliams JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/colinwilliams/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22