Ashley Williams
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
Toptal member since March 30, 2020
Ashley is a full-stack developer with over 15 years of experience building cutting edge, high-traffic use software for large industry-leading clients in the UK. He specializes in the Microsoft development stack, such as .NET Core, SQL Server, IIS, and Azure. His work has saved clients millions in staffing costs, significantly reduced operating costs, and has increased the value of client products by millions. Ashley exceeds goals and delivers exceptional, high-performing projects.
Portfolio
Experience
- C# - 15 years
- Visual Studio - 15 years
- SQL - 10 years
- MySQL - 10 years
- ASM - 8 years
- Bootstrap - 5 years
- .NET Core - 4 years
- ASP.NET Core - 4 years
Work Experience
Director and Senior Developer
Yacker Enterprises, Ltd.
- Developed a proxy/VPN service that currently has over 6000 endpoints with under 100 milliseconds added latency.
- Integrated the SportsMonk API into a SaaS product, which helps the end user place "value bets" with well-own online bookies such as Bet365 and SkyBet. These bets are based on statistical predictions.
- Oversaw the launch of the above SaaS platform, which now has over 5000 active users and continues to grow.
Contracted Senior Full-stack Developer
Visdata, Ltd.
- Developed a collection of Android applications which is used to track productivity against industry-standard times. The company this was written for claims to have saved their clients over £500 million in staffing costs.
- Oversaw the migration from legacy (in-house developed) source control to GitHub, which resulted in more stable versioning and branches.
- Managed a small team of developers, creating bespoke software for multiple clients, ensuring quality work was presented on a daily basis.
- Developed a flexible software solution designed to streamline any process that could be split into small tasks such as manufacturing, picking, and scheduled maintenance. It is now used by industry-leading companies such as Wincanton PLC and B&Q.
- Reduced analytic data import for B&Q from 11 minutes per 1000 jobs to 35 seconds, a ~95% saving, which reduced cloud service costs.
Owner and Full-stack Developer
Hubbyte
- Designed 20+ WordPress-based websites for small local clients.
- Developed an Invoice Management system for the co-operative schools' society to help keep track of their financials. Over 10,000 invoices have been collected while reducing operating costs by ~35%.
- Developed a platform for soccer recruitment in the USA. This platform was used to gain venture capital funding and was valued at $1 million after a successful funding round. It is still running today, currently valued at $4 million.
- Created software to design floor-plans for FloorStak and reduce costs while quoting customers in a swift manner. This reduced the average time to quote from two days to four hours.
Project History
Helios / wToolkit64 (World of Warcraft Automation)
Small Game Development (Unity)
Education
Master's Degree in Computing and IT, and Computer Science
The Open University - Online, UK
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, SignalR
Tools
Visual Studio, Slack, Interactive Disassembler (IDA) Pro
Languages
C#, SQL, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, Java, PHP, CSS
Frameworks
.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, .NET, Bootstrap, ASM, Unity
Platforms
Windows, Linux, Telerik, Azure, Xamarin, Android
Storage
MySQL, MySQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Microsoft SQL Server
Other
IIS, Cordova, Reflection
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