Bill Riess
Software Engineering Manager at Flowbird Group
Woolwich Township, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Riess is a seasoned Software Engineering Manager with a decade of experience building and leading teams to deliver full-stack web applications, currently managing 10+ developers at Flowbird Group. A hands-on PHP and Laravel specialist, he has migrated legacy systems to Laravel and AWS, implemented JWT APIs, and improved front-end UX across large consumer platforms. He contributed to the well-known laravel/passport project by enabling multiple authentication providers—modifying client repositories, guards, migrations, and tests to support diverse user models. Bill blends managerial discipline with deep technical ownership, having led migrations from Ruby and Java backends and introduced Agile practices to small teams. Based in Woolwich Township, NJ, he pairs pragmatic product focus with a knack for secure, extensible authentication and deployment solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Web Design and Development, Certificate, Web Design and Development at Cittone Institute
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Github Skills (18)
laravel-mix10
laravel10
php10
passportjs10
oauth10
database-migrations9
apidoc9
api9
database-migration9
testing8
crud6
dom-events6
android6
http6
beanstalkd6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/passport
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Laravel Passport provides OAuth2 server support to Laravel.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 14 commits, 4 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Bill focused on enhancing Laravel Passport's functionality to support multiple authentication providers. Their contributions included modifying the `ClientRepository`, `Guards`, and database migrations to accommodate different user models and authentication flows. Key changes involved updating client creation, provider validation, and token handling, ensuring compatibility with various authentication schemes within the Laravel framework. Further, the user worked on improving code documentation and fixing tests.
phpauthenticationoauth2-serverpassportlaravel
billriess/passport-test
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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