Bill Leidy
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBill Leidy is a Software Development Engineer II at AWS with 11 years of experience building performant web applications and back-end systems. He brings a rare combination of advanced language and teaching background (PhD in Slavic studies) and a foundation in physical chemistry to software development, which informs a methodical, analytical approach to engineering. Previously at BenchPrep he led a rewrite of a multi-tenant account management app into a modern Vue.js single-page application and drove performance optimizations that improved core data-processing tasks by orders of magnitude. His stack experience spans Ruby on Rails, Vue/ES6, PostgreSQL, Redis, and pragmatic SQL optimizations, plus front-end work shipping marketing redesigns as a sole developer. Based in Seattle, he writes about technical topics on his personal site and favors elegant, data-driven solutions that balance user experience with operational efficiency.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Intensive Cultural Studies (abroad)Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physical Chemistry, Russian, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physical Chemistry, Russian at University of RochesterDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General at Stanford University
English, Russian, Polish
Github Skills (16)
candidate10
lang8
heroku8
jekyll8
ruby7
html7
chrome-extension6
chrome6
browser5
sublime-text3
dot3
caniuse2
benchmark1
shell1
bash1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wmleidy/advent-of-code-ruby
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
wmleidy/wmleidy.github.io
Jun 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:12 PRs, 141 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year
reactnextjs
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