Bill Broughton
Staff Software Engineer at Toast
Lake Orion, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolBill Broughton is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of cross-functional experience blending software development, financial analysis, and technology leadership. He has led backend and engineering teams across startups and established companies—most recently at Toast—helping organizations modernize applications, define architectures, and implement monitoring and remediation strategies. His academic background in economics and an MS in Financial Management & Information Systems informs a data-driven approach to designing reliable, cost-effective systems. Bill has served as fractional CTO and consulting engineer, turning ambiguous product needs into concrete engineering processes and continuous-improvement workflows. Based in Lake Orion, Michigan, he brings both hands-on coding and strategic oversight, equally comfortable shipping features and shaping long-term technical direction. A naturally curious operator, he often bridges business and engineering perspectives to accelerate value delivery.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Financial Management & Information Systems, 3.58, Master of Science (MS), Financial Management & Information Systems, 3.58 at University of Maryland University CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Economics, Minor: German Language, Bachelor of Science (BS), Economics, Minor: German Language at Oakland University
English, German
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Github Skills (56)
git10
github10
patch9
azure8
subversion8
wsl28
aws8
gcp8
hotel-booking8
coordinates7
timezone7
querying6
ruby-on-rails6
sdk6
mongoid6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
wlbrough/clearbit-api
Aug 2018 - Nov 2019
A complete (unofficial) PHP SDK for Clearbit
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 1 year 3 months
phpclearbitphp-sdksdk
wlbrough/data-structures-and-algorithms-in-go
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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