Tim Williams

Lead Developer & Cloud Architect

Over 17 years of experience in designing and building scalable web and mobile applications using cutting-edge technologies.

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Technologies I Excel With

From frontend frameworks to cloud architecture, explore the technologies that power my projects.

OpenAI33 uses

OpenAI

AI platform for building and running applications. Used for building and running applications without provisioning or managing servers.

Intermediate6 projects ->

AWS23 uses

AWS

Amazon Web Services cloud platform. Architected and deployed scalable applications using EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, and more.

Advanced8 projects ->

DevOps15 uses

DevOps

CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and deployment automation. Focus on streamlining development workflows.

Advanced5 projects ->

JavaScript13 uses

JavaScript

Core language for both frontend and backend development. Extensive experience with ES6+ features, async/await, and modern JS patterns.

Expert3 projects ->

PHP12 uses

PHP

Server-side scripting language. Extensive experience building web applications, APIs, and WordPress solutions.

Advanced5 projects ->

*MCP12 uses

MCP

Model Context Protocol for building composable AI tool servers. Used to create specialized copilots that any AI assistant can drive — including AI Charts and AI Sound.

Advanced3 projects ->

*Claude Code12 uses

Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding CLI. Primary AI-assisted development tool for architecture, implementation, and code review across the full stack.

Advanced0 projects ->

*Cursor12 uses

Cursor

AI-native code editor built on VS Code. Used for AI-assisted development workflows with inline completions, chat, and codebase-aware context.

Intermediate0 projects ->

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Leadership & Soft Skills

Beyond technical expertise, I bring strong leadership, communication, and project management skills essential for team success.

Architecture Planning42 uses

Architecture Planning

Designing scalable system architectures, planning technical migrations, and making technology stack decisions.

Expert11 projects ->

Technology Evaluation37 uses

Technology Evaluation

Researching and evaluating new technologies, frameworks, and tools for potential adoption in projects.

Advanced8 projects ->

Technical Communication23 uses

Technical Communication

Translating complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and facilitating cross-team collaboration.

Expert11 projects ->

Developer Experience16 uses

Developer Experience

Building developer experience tools, improving development workflows, and creating internal frameworks and documentation.

Advanced1 projects ->

Project Management13 uses

Project Management

Planning, scoping, resourcing and delivering end-to-end software projects. Experience with both waterfall and agile methodologies.

Advanced9 projects ->

Stakeholder Management12 uses

Stakeholder Management

Managing relationships with clients, executives, and cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business objectives.

Advanced7 projects ->

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Featured Projects

Discover the projects that shaped my career and the technologies that made them possible.

AI Sound

2026 - Present

AI-native audio editor built as a modern replacement for Audacity, with LLM integration at its core.

Solo Developer

TypeScript

React

Node.js

SQLite +3 more

Architecture Planning

Technology Evaluation

Technical Communication

AI Charts

2026 - Present

AI-powered flowchart, ERD, and swimlane diagram builder with a built-in AI assistant and an MCP server exposing 18+ tools for external AI integration.

Solo Developer

TypeScript

React

Node.js

SQLite +3 more

Architecture Planning

Technology Evaluation

Technical Communication

GTZenda

2025 - Present

Enterprise document intelligence pipeline that ingests procurement data from AI agents, classifies and normalizes documents using LLM processing, and pushes structured data into a government sales intelligence platform.

Lead Developer

PHP

Laravel

Vue.js

TypeScript +6 more

Architecture Planning

Project Management

Technical Communication +1 more

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Career Timeline

My professional journey across companies and roles, building expertise in modern technologies.

eRepublic LLC
Current
Lead Developer | December 2019 - Present
Lead Developer with over 15 years of experience, specializing in designing and building scalable web and mobile applications using cutting-edge technologies like AWS, Node.js, Vue, PHP, and Laravel. My expertise lies in developer coaching, developer experience, driving innovation, and delivering high-impact, user-centric solutions across diverse modalities.
7 years7 projects
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New Paradigm Web Development
Current
Founder & Lead Developer | December 2009 - Present
Independent web development consultancy specializing in custom web applications, e-commerce solutions, digital transformation projects and mobile applications. Focused on delivering innovative solutions using modern technologies and agile development practices.
17 years5 projects
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Intellaegis
Sr. Web Developer | December 2017 - December 2019
Helped reengineer MasterQueue a monolith On-Prem web application to a secure distributed cloud platform. Developed and implemented security and stability focused policies and coding practices leading to rapid audit compliance.
2 years1 project
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eRepublic Inc.
Web Developer | December 2011 - December 2018
Built and deployed many website and CMS solutions for eRepublic's publications. Built web-based productivity tools that integrate CRM solutions with external systems. Working on efficient facilitation of webinars, white papers, and other digital products.
7 years0 projects
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Career Stories

Read about the key moments, challenges, and achievements that define my professional growth.

AchievementApr 2026

Building Navi: An Agentic Layer Inside a Legacy PHP Codebase

How I dropped a production-grade agent into a decade-old PHP application by treating context, model routing, and sparse data layers as first-class architectural concerns.

PHP

MySQL

Architecture Planning

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AchievementJan 2026

Replacing a Manual Workflow with a Multi-Stage Agentic Pipeline

How I turned a slow, human-in-the-loop procurement intake process into a nine-stage automated pipeline that classifies, summarizes, and validates documents at scale.

PHP

Laravel

Architecture Planning

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Latest Publications

Read my latest articles and insights on technology, development practices, and career growth.

[M]medium

Apr 24, 20264 min read

Benchmarking Models in the Real World

I tested a bunch of SOTA LLM models on real world agentic tasks that go beyond coding and typical business processes and really stress them. There were some shocking...

AI’s Real Impact on SDLC: Why Marketing Doesn’t Match Reality

There’s a growing disconnect between what AI companies are promising and what developers are actually experiencing.You’ve probably seen the headlines: “10x developers,” “end of software engineering...

Move Fast and Break Things, or Be Left Behind by Your Competitors

The Tuesday Morning Slack Message That Could Have Been Any TuesdayPicture this: It’s 9:47 AM on a Tuesday. A deployment went sideways over the weekend. A customer-facing feature is broken. Someone’s...

Latest Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of Rubber Duck Radio — exploring software development, architecture, and technology.

[>>] S1E21

Jul 2, 202637:02

The Local AI Win Nobody's Talking About

Tim Williams, Paul Mason

Tim Williams opens up about his surprising optimism for on-device AI, from Google's encoder-free Gemma 4 to Apple's upcoming AFM 3, and what it means when a 12B model runs entirely offline. The duo al...

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Python

Architecture Planning

Technology Evaluation

[>>] S1E20

Jun 25, 202647:59

I Built a Chrome Feature 15 Years Ago

Tim Williams, Paul Mason

Tim Williams recounts the eerie moment he found his jQuery-era framework AppCore mirrored in Chrome’s new Declarative Partial Updates proposal—and what that means for the future of web development. Th...

Architecture Planning

Technology Evaluation

[>>] S1E19

Jun 18, 202638:16

Fable 5 Banned: The Multi-Model Escape Plan

Tim Williams, Paul Mason

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 with huge expectations, only to see the US government order it pulled globally three days later. Tim and Paul dig into the swirling conspiracy theories: was it retali...