Will Barbee
Will Barbee - Software Engineer × Design Systems
AUSTIN, TX
Open to opportunities
11 years building digital products for startups and Fortune 500s.
For over a decade, I've built web applications, digital products, and design systems for organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. A background in Clinical Psychology gives me a unique lens on developer experience — cognitive load, mental models, and API ergonomics all inform how I work.
// currently
Kyndryl
2021 — Present
Associate Director, Software Engineering
Building Shidoka, a framework-agnostic design system in Lit, serving engineers across a ~70,000-employee global enterprise (~4,000 weekly npm downloads). Helping to lead developer adoption and stakeholder engagement across diverse product teams. Focused on accessibility, performance, and developer experience at scale.
kyndryl.com→// about
I think a lot about the people on the other side of what I build — whether that's a developer consuming a design system or a user navigating a web app. A background in clinical psychology informs that instinct, but a decade of shipping real tools and products is where it's actually been proven.
Outside work: weightlifting, tennis, electronic music composition, cats.
// education
M.A. Clinical Psychology
The New School for Social Research
B.A. Psychology
UT Austin
Web Development
General Assembly
// previously
Experience
Kyndryl
2021—PresentAssociate Director, Software Engineering
Design system development, stakeholder presentations
Corel
2021Senior UI Developer
Acquisition transition & knowledge transfer
BrowseTech
2017—2021Co-founder & Lead Dev
Ad blocking product, rapid scaling, successful exit
// expertise
Tech Stack
Frontend
- React/Redux/Next.js
- Vue.js/Nuxt
- Lit
- TypeScript
- TailwindCSS
Design
- Figma
- Sketch
- Design Systems
- UI/UX
- Adobe Suite
Infrastructure
- Microsoft Azure AZ-900
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate
- AWS
- Vercel
- Docker
// open source
Community Projects
Memory Visualization System
openclaw-memory-mapper
** IN DEVELOPMENT **
Your AI knows everything about you, but you know nothing about what it remembers. Memory Mapper (openclaw-memory-mapper) provides increased visibility into local AI memory systems -- debug faster, maintain memory hygiene, and understand how your AI stores and retrieves information. Initially designed as an offering for clawdbot/moltbot users.
One command opens an interactive dashboard showing memory architecture, file browser, and security controls. Read-only, local-only, zero telemetry.
Let's build something together.
Whether you're building a design system, scaling a frontend team, or need technical guidance.