Bill Piel
Principal Software Engineer at TeamOhana
Media, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Piel is a Principal Software Engineer and technical manager with over two decades of experience designing web applications and distributed systems, currently leading architecture and delivery at TeamOhana. He blends hands-on engineering—particularly in Clojure and increasingly Rust—with empathetic leadership and a strong commitment to iterative development and team coaching. Bill has founded startups and served as CTO, bringing entrepreneurial insight to product-oriented engineering and scalable system design. His background spans early-stage companies through acquisitions (RJMetrics → Magento) and roles across engineering, architecture, and executive leadership, demonstrating an ability to translate complex requirements into practical, maintainable architectures. Based in Media, Pennsylvania, he pairs deep technical curiosity with emotional intelligence to help teams continuously improve their craft.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science, BE Computer Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science at University of Delaware
Spanish
Github Skills (81)
python10
cider10
deep-learning10
nrepl10
cpp10
rocks10
emacs-lisp10
ml10
clojure10
emacs10
neural-network10
data-science10
tensorflow10
functional-programming-language10
jit10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RJMetrics/rjm-php-utils
Jul 2013 - Nov 2015
a grab bag of functions that help take the sting out of PHP
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
bagphpstinggrabusage-service
bpiel/billy-macs
May 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:129 pushes, 6 branches in 8 years 10 months
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