Jamal Williams
(512) 496 1940
Jamal@JamalWilliams.com
linkedin.com/in/jamalwilliams
SUMMARY
I am an Engineering Manager with 23 years of experience in software development and a strong passion for team building and mentorship. I have a proven track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams by fostering a culture of “Professional Development” where engineers understand the business impact of their work, prioritize collaboration, and strive for consistent, high-quality outcomes. I am a certified Scrum Master with expertise in frontend development and UI/UX.
RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS
- Architected a fully composable headless e-commerce site and spearheaded the development and implementation.
- Collaborated with the design team to create a component library & made it visible in Storybook.
- Leveraged Contentful CRM to create a platform that allowed the marketing team to launch initiatives with 0 dev support. This effectively reduced what was previously thousands of dev hours to zero and greatly reduced time to market for the marketing team.
- Modernized FE tech stack to typescript, nextJS, led the conversion of the site (75% complete).
- Increased code test coverage from near 0% to 80%.
- Improved site speed by up to 40%.
- Enabled the consolidation of 3 active checkouts to 1.
- Introduced the company’s first CI/CD pipeline via Vercel.
- Retired manual QA & weekly deploy schedule for FE.
- Greatly reduced Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) & time to market.
- Spearheaded the adoption of LaunchDarkly for A/B Testing and led the company’s testing efforts.
EXPERIENCE
Engineering Manager: Lovevery, Boise ID
Aug 2022 – Jan 2025 – 100% remote
- Responsible for all pre-purchase portions of the site, supporting 4 regions and 5 languages.
- Collaborated closely with design, SEO, data & analytics, affiliate marketing, product managers, and marketing teams to plan new features and product launches.
- Managed and mentored a high-performing, globally distributed remote Agile development team of up to 8 engineers across all US time zones, Mexico, Brazil, Amsterdam, and Poland while acting as Scrum Master.
- Successfully mentored my direct reports to the following promotions: 1 principal engineer, 1 engineering manager, and 2 leads.
Senior Engineer: Lovevery, Boise ID
Nov 2021 – Aug 2022 – 100% remote
- Developed Team Lead role and successfully advocated for adoption across eng org.
- Became acting manager after 4 months.
Senior Engineer: TrueCar, Santa Monica, CA
Aug 2015 – June 2020 – Austin office then 100% remote
- Significant contributor to the complete rebuild of all apps, and supporting infrastructure. (React & Rails)
- Tight collaboration with the design team on UI component library.
- Extensive use of A/B testing of visual components using LaunchDarkly.
- Part of the team tasked with performance and SEO improvements.
Front End Developer: projekt202, Austin, Texas
Oct 2014 – Jan 2015 – 100% remote
Front End Developer: Perficient, Austin, Texas
March 2014 – June 2014 – 100% remote
Front End Developer: Predictive Science, Austin, Texas
November 2013 – March 2014 – 100% remote
Front End Developer: projekt202, Austin, Texas
Aug 2013 – Sep 2013 – 50% remote
Front End Developer: Marketvine by Dell, Round Rock, Texas
2011 – 2013
- Led the visual integration team.
- Received Scrum Master certification.
- Contributed to the development of templating engine, Jhmal.
Front End Developer: Perficient, Austin, Texas
April 2011 – November 2011
Engineering Manager: Ijango Network, Austin, Texas
2009 – 2011
- Architect and DB for 3 .Net sites with over 3 mil dollars of cc transactions.
- Hired, Managed & Led team of 5 developers and 1 designer.
Programmer Analyst: DELL Inc, Round Rock, Texas
2002 – 2009
- Full-stack development of several applications.
- Coordinated with dev teams in India, Ireland, and Ukraine.
- Designed and implemented a continuous build environment.
EDUCATION
Oklahoma State University
BS Management of Information Systems
1998 – 2002
