Cassidy Williams

Well hello there! My name is Cassidy. I'm a startup advisor and investor, developer experience expert, and meme-maker on the internet. I'm also CTO at Contenda! Before now, I worked at OSS Capital, Remote, Netlify, React Training, CodePen, Amazon, L4 Digital, Clarifai, and Venmo, and graduated from Iowa State University. I currently advise some companies, including Netlify, Centered, and Plasmic, and do some angel investing, as well!
I run a weekly newsletter and love teaching and helping people become better coders! In my spare time, I love playing music, building mechanical keyboards and LEGO sets, and hanging out with my sister Cami. I also have a Patreon if you'd like to chat with me regularly (our Discord group is so active I can hardly keep up!), get resume reviews, schedule mock interviews with me, or just play video games. No pressure to join in, and I appreciate your support a ton no matter what!
In terms of where I am on the internet (and off), you might have seen me in Glamour Magazine or the Big Dream documentary a few years back, my Scrabble or Stack Overflow The Key keyboard projects in a couple dozen different publications! I also co-host the Stack Overflow Podcast and help write their newsletter as well. I also made a successfully funded Kickstarter project called Go: On the Go! to get people interested in playing the game Go. I've spoken at over a hundred events around the world, and have made online classes on Scrimba, Udemy, Skillshare, and moooore. I love speaking at events, and I have a speaker rider, if you'd like to talk to me about one you're running. I also enjoy speaking on podcasts! Feel free to email me at cassidy at cassidoo dot co with details.
Alright, since you've read this far, have a joke: Why are mountains so funny? Because they're hill areas.