Bill Lazar
Staff Software Engineer at Act-On Software, Inc.
Faro, Faro, Portugal
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Top SchoolBill Lazar is a staff software engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in expressive, flexible web UIs for power users—developer tools, API-driven products, and highly interactive dashboards. He combines hands-on front-end expertise (React, TypeScript, Angular, Backbone, Sass) with a product-minded background that includes product management, technical support leadership at Sun Microsystems, and startup consulting. Bill has shipped customer-facing UX for large-scale analytics platforms and ad/commerce products, and has repeatedly bridged UX, PM and backend teams to turn complex workflows into usable interfaces. His career blends deep technical craft with customer-facing roles—marketing, community, and customer success—giving him a rare empathy for both users and operators. Based in Faro, Portugal, he thrives on revitalizing content- and commerce-oriented sites and building tools that invite customization and long-term engagement. An early career decade of multi-language business app development underpins his practical, cross-stack problem solving.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Journalism, BA, Journalism at University of Southern CaliforniaMBA, Finance, MBA, Finance at Rutgers Business SchoolLivingston High School
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Github Skills (121)
jquery-plugin10
bug-tracker10
rss10
javascript10
sumologic10
angularjs10
tagging10
documentation-template10
logging10
rss-reader9
project-management9
jquery9
angular9
highcharts9
cli9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SumoLogic/js-sumo-logger
Apr 2017 - Nov 2019
Sumo Logic JavaScript SDK for Logging
Contributions:1 release, 208 commits, 92 PRs in 2 years 7 months
javascriptloggingsumologic
billsaysthis/billsaysthis.github.com
Feb 2018 - Apr 2022
My user page
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
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