Will Barbee
Will Barbee - Software Engineer × Design Systems
AUSTIN, TX
OPEN TO REMOTE 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
(Sr. UI Developer)
Building Shidoka, a framework-agnostic design system in Lit, serving engineers across a ~70,000-employee global enterprise (~4,000 weekly npm downloads). Focused on accessibility, performance, and developer experience at scale.
- Architecting framework-agnostic web components with complex integrations (data visualization, custom form logic) that ship to React, Angular, and Svelte teams company-wide
- Directly supporting developers across frameworks — debugging integration issues, advising on consumption patterns, and maintaining a 98% same-day resolution rate
- Owning release operations — component delivery, release presentations, and cross-team communication
- Driving adoption through documentation, migration guides, and hands-on engineering support across business units
// 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
Associate Director, Software Engineering
Design system development, stakeholder presentations
Corel
Senior UI Developer
Following BrowseTech's acquisition by Corel, led the technical transition and knowledge transfer for all things front-end/UI.
BrowseTech
Co-founder & Lead Dev
Co-founded an ad-blocking browser product built on a multi-framework monorepo. Scaled rapidly from prototype to acquisition by Corel.
// 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
// select projects
Client Work
Artist Portfolio
Brooke Burnside
Custom portfolio site showcasing visual work and exhibitions.
Plant Care, Container Sales, Landscape Design
New Native Gardens
Small-business informational website with project showcase.
Art Consulting
Breeding Art Advisory
Custom website with curated gallery and advisory services for art consultant and advisory.
Creative Consultant Portfolio
Paul Wade
Personal portfolio site for a creative professional.
// 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.