Will Weiss
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
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.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
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.
Work Experience
Technical Lead | International Development
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.
Freelance Web Developer
BugReplay
- Built web extensions for Chrome and Firefox—allowing users to create bug reports by recording their browser’s screen, console, and network traffic.
Web Developer
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.
Associate Director | Senior Engineer
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.
Experience
Tempo
Payroll Platform
Roar! by More Human Internet
https://morehumaninternet.org/roar/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
Williams College - Williamstown, MA, USA
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