Summary
Bill Boyer is a seasoned solutions architect and hands-on engineer based in Chicago with over three decades of software experience and twelve years focused on independent consulting. He blends deep engineering chops—from C++ trading systems to cloud-native AWS stacks—with product, project, and business fluency, having led Viacom’s global web and app engineering organization and managed multi-million-dollar initiatives. Recently he’s been modernizing legacy publishing and forecasting platforms at EIU and driving digital integrations and TV product rebrands for WebMD, often owning both architecture and significant implementation. Bill is comfortable across dev and ops, vendor selection, CI/CD, and team coaching, and he brings a rare mix of newsroom-style content workflow experience and quantitative forecasting tool integration. Notably, his career spans early work on performance-critical systems and inventive caching strategies to modern serverless and data-visualization pipelines, showing an aptitude for practical, cross-disciplinary solutions.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The University of Maryland, College Park
English