Will Weiss, Full-stack Developer in Boston, MA, United States
Will Weiss

Full-stack Developer in Boston, MA, United States

Member since March 1, 2019
Will is a proven engineer and leader who's comfortable working across the stack in pursuit of shipping valuable software. He believes that communication is vital to any project but especially when working remotely. For technical matters, Will thinks that the most important processes are those that prevent problems from arising in the first place: a clear consensus on the requirements, code reviews, practicing TDD, and maintaining a QA mindset.
Will is now available for hire

Portfolio

Experience

Location

Boston, MA, United States

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Unix

The most amazing...

...project I've created is Roar! a web extension that automatically captures a snapshot of any online issue and addresses a tweet to the site's maintainer.

Employment

  • Technical Lead | International Development

    2020 - 2020
    Indigo
    • Managed development of Android application for taking soy seed orders in Brazil. Major considerations included offline-first support, internationalization, and mobile payments.
    • Led team building web application to support Brazilian agriculturalists manage their land holdings and track crop prices across international markets.
    • Oversaw sales tools to track performance, usage, and manage authorization among Brazilian growers.
    Technologies: Node.js, Android Development, Android
  • Freelance Web Developer

    2019 - 2020
    BugReplay
    • Built web extensions for Chrome and Firefox—allowing users to create bug reports by recording their browser’s screen, console, and network traffic.
    Technologies: Web Extensions, Go, React
  • Web Developer

    2019 - 2020
    TCB Analytics
    • Designed and implemented data visualizations for wind energy traders to better track price changes and risk in financial instruments over time.
    • Created a market research reporting tool with spreadsheet functionality and anomaly detection.
    Technologies: Docker, Bootstrap, jQuery, RStudio Shiny, R
  • Associate Director | Senior Engineer

    2014 - 2019
    Maxwell Health
    • Created Tempo: a user interface that has enabled benefits packages to be easily configured for thousands of employers using Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, React, Redux, and AWS.
    • Deployed and supported over a dozen microservices using Docker and Kubernetes.
    • Built ETL tool and cron job to load hundreds of thousands of insurance plans nightly from third-party sources using Bash, Node.js, and Kubernetes.
    • Helped to create a new payroll system to surface demographic and coverage changes to HR users using event sourcing backed by PHP, DynamoDB, MySQL, and SQS.
    • Spearheaded the re-platforming of our benefits shopping experience for employees to allow mobile enrollment, improve usability, and support internationalization using React, Redux, and styled-components.
    • Set up and maintained many test suites for various applications using Mocha, Chai, Sinon, Ava, Bats, PHPUnit, and Cucumber.
    • Created a search engine for small group medical insurance plans using Elasticsearch, Node.js, Express.js, Mustache, and jQuery.
    • Performed load testing to determine possible performance issues prior to product launch using Artillery.
    • Built an EDI platform allowing member elections to be synchronized to all major insurance carriers using Python and Pandas.
    Technologies: Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python, Redux, React, TypeScript, Express.js, Node.js

Experience

  • Tempo

    A user interface that has enabled benefits packages to be easily configured for thousands of employers.

  • Payroll Platform

    A reporting platform that leverages event sourcing to surface demographic and coverage changes to HR users.

  • Roar! by More Human Internet
    https://morehumaninternet.org/roar/

    Roar! is a free, open-source, non-profit web extension that automatically captures a snapshot of any online issue and addresses a tweet to the site's maintainer. Turn a tweet into a Roar, so experts and maintainers see the issue and offer solutions.

Skills

  • Languages

    Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, GraphQL, Python, Erlang (OTP), Bash, R, Go
  • Frameworks

    React Native, Express.js, Koa, Redux, Jest, RStudio Shiny, Bootstrap
  • Libraries/APIs

    React, Chai, Sinon.JS, jQuery, Mustache, Node.js
  • Tools

    Mocha, AWS SDK, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
  • Paradigms

    Functional Programming, Agile
  • Platforms

    Android, Linux, Unix, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker
  • Other

    Mobile App Development, Android Development, Software Development, Freelancing, Enzyme, Web Extensions, Mathematics
  • Storage

    MongoDB, CouchDB

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics
    2008 - 2012
    Williams College - Williamstown, MA, USA

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