Will Houston
Strategic Development Manager
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Houston is a SaaS-focused Business Development professional with 11 years of commercial experience and a proven track record of driving enterprise pipeline and consistently delivering 120–150% of quota across Angi, Groupon, and Erie. He routinely sets 15+ qualified enterprise meetings monthly with $10M+ revenue companies and partners on six- and seven-figure deal cycles that contributed to measurable YoY growth. Skilled in outbound prospecting, full-cycle SMB to mid-market sales, and Salesforce-driven operations, he pairs data-informed outreach with hands-on CRM execution. He also brings founder-level grit from running a Midwest streetwear brand, blending customer-facing sales instincts with product and brand sensibility. Beyond sales, Will contributes front-end work to open-source integration tooling—improving UI components and multi-source query support—demonstrating a rare mix of technical fluency and go-to-market impact. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he’s as deliberate about pipeline strategy as he is about picking the perfect pair of sneakers.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Communication and Media Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Communication and Media Studies at University of Cincinnati
Github Skills (14)
uid10
javascript10
ddf10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
apidoc9
api9
css9
javas8
java8
backbone8
backbonejs8
catalog7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
codice/ddf
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
DDF Distributed Data Framework - an open source, modular integration framework.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 30 PRs, 396 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the front-end of the DDF framework, making significant changes to the UI components. Their work included refactoring, adding features such as workspace templates and an upload editor, fixing existing issues like the search form overflow, and improving the UI with the faceting driven auto-complete. They also made back-end changes to support features like multi-src queries and related API changes.
codicecssosgisaml2framework
willwill96/ddf
Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
DDF Distributed Data Framework - an open source, modular integration framework.
Contributions:135 pushes, 34 branches in 1 year 6 months
frameworkintegration-frameworkddfmodularjava
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