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Benjamin Williamson

@benjaminwilliamson1

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer focused on performant, accessible web and real-time experiences.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m seeking senior-level roles building performant, accessible web and real-time systems, with opportunities to improve UX, mentor engineers, and drive measurable performance and reliability.

I am a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with extensive experience building high-performance, accessible web UIs, real-time collaboration features, and scalable backend services. I have designed complex canvas and video timeline interfaces, improved Core Web Vitals through bundling and metric tracking, and created reusable component libraries documented in Storybook that ship across web and mobile platforms.

I’ve contributed across the stack — implementing React/TypeScript frontends, GraphQL and Spring Boot APIs, Node.js services, and PostgreSQL-backed data layers — while driving cross-team consistency with API contracts, design tokens, and accessibility best practices. I value measurable performance improvements, strong testing (unit, visual, end-to-end), and pragmatic use of tools like LLM-based coding assistants to boost productivity.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior FullStack Engineer

Canva

Mar 2021 - Jan 2026 (4 years 10 months)

Designed and implemented high-performance UI surfaces (infinite canvases, video timelines) and real-time collaboration features, improving responsiveness and concurrency handling; led performance efforts (Webpack5 upgrade, code-splitting) to raise Core Web Vitals across platforms.

React TypeScript WebSockets GraphQL Spring Boot Webpack Storybook Playwright

Senior Software Engineer

Accenture

Sep 2018 - Feb 2021 (2 years 5 months)

Built secure, data-intensive finance and healthcare applications, implementing real-time dashboards and HIPAA-compliant patient engagement features; deployed microservices to AWS/Azure and improved processing to meet strict latency SLAs.

React Angular Spring Boot Kafka AWS Azure PostgreSQL Terraform Playwright

Frontend Engineer

Itron Inc.

Oct 2016 - Aug 2018 (1 year 10 months)

Developed real-time utility dashboards and component-driven UIs for outage management and meter analytics, migrated legacy AngularJS to modern frameworks to improve load times and accessibility.

Angular TypeScript D3.Js NgRX WebSockets SASS Accessibility

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Florida Atlantic University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2012 - 2016

Activities and societies: Worked on component-driven UIs, data visualizations using D3.js, and integrations with mapping APIs; focused on accessibility and migration of legacy AngularJS modules.

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework and projects focused on web and real-time systems, data visualization, and UI engineering.