Ben Williams with a coffee cup in front of his face

Ben I Williams

Creator and engineer who designs and builds things on the web.

Profesional

I spend most of my time working as a Product Engineer at Ideaflow, helping build the next generation of knowledge tools. I work remote while living in cloudy San Francisco, CA. We are currently hiring, if you are interest please reach out to me!

I also moonlight as a Code Reviewer, perform on-demand code reviews and security audits, for companies all around the world through PullRequest.

Writing

I write sporadically on this website and Twitter. See Essays and @biwills.

Open Source Software

I maintain a small set of open source software:

gatsby-plugin-aphrodite: Provides drop-in support for Aphrodite in Gatsby.
17-vscode-theme: A dark blue theme for VS Code
tiny-throttle: A throttle & debounce package in 329 bytes
TypeTac: TypeScript library for Tachyons
vscode-plv8: VS Code support for JavaScript syntax highlighting in PLV8 PostgreSQL code
seal-store: Framework agnostic immutable state store

You can find all my public code on my Github @biw.

Interests

Knowledge graphs and note taking
The 100 and 1000 true fans monetization models
Lowering barriers to creation
Writing world-class software
Chess
Playing and making music
Reading

Most recently I was the cofounder of AuxParty, working on building an immersive 3D social music experience. We scaled the product to 50 countries around the world and got a chance to put on events with amazing artists/producers who had over 100 million online streams collectively. We stopped working on it after hitting financial difficulties.

Before that, I worked at:

Shone with a small product focused engineering team working on autonomous technologies for container ships.
Aero which at the time, was working on rethinking business travel. They have since pivoted.
Masterclass which makes online classes with the worlds best instructors.
Microsoft as an intern, working on Windows kernel security.
Tensentric as an intern, working on medical device security.

Contact me

My email is [email protected].

You can also contact me via Twitter DMs. My Twitter is @biwills.

🌻served from a computer in San Jose, California