Ashley Williams

Developer Environment And Build Systems Engineer

Ashley Williams is an accomplished software engineer and entrepreneur with extensive experience in the technology sector. Currently serving as a Developer Environment and Build Systems Engineer at Shopify since January 2025, Ashley has held various prominent roles, including Invited Expert at ECMA, Founder and CEO of axo, and Core Team Member for The Rust Programming Language. Additionally, Ashley has contributed to Vercel as a Staff Product Manager, focused on product strategy for edge offerings and Next.js, and served as the Founding Executive Director of the Rust Foundation. Previous experience includes positions at Apollo GraphQL, Cloudflare, and Mozilla, where Ashley was involved in significant engineering projects, including the development of the Wrangler CLI tool. Ashley's early career involved a role as Individual Membership Director on the Board of Directors for Node.js. Ashley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy & Neuroscience from Wesleyan University.

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