Bill Robertson
Application Engineer
Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Robertson is a seasoned application engineer with nearly two decades of software development experience and 15+ years focused on the JVM ecosystem. He has designed and modernized large-scale systems—most recently leading a cloud migration and containerized deployment of McGraw-Hill’s connectEd to Amazon ECS—and currently builds back-end services for retail SaaS using Ruby and PostgreSQL. His language fluency spans Java, Clojure, Python, Ruby, C, and C++, and he has deep experience with RESTful and SOAP services, systems integration, and database-backed APIs. Bill has operated in both research-oriented defense environments (with past TS eligibility) and fast-moving commercial teams, pairing rigorous security awareness with pragmatic engineering tradeoffs. An active contributor to low-level projects, he extended the therubyracer C++ bindings to better bridge V8 and Ruby, showing a comfort with native code and cross-language interoperability. He holds an MS in Computer Science and blends academic grounding with hands-on architecture and implementation experience.
16 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Franklin UniversityBA History, BA History at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (4)
cprogramming-language10
c-language10
data-conversion10
ruby10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rubyjs/therubyracer
Oct 2009 - May 2010
Embed the V8 Javascript Interpreter into Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Bill primarily focused on extending and refining the `therubyracer` project, which embeds the V8 Javascript interpreter into Ruby. Their work involved modifying the C++ code, specifically focusing on the `v8.cpp` and related files, to integrate and interact with the V8 engine. Key contributions included the introduction of data type conversions to facilitate communication between Ruby and JavaScript, and enabling insertion of data into the Javascript context.
javascriptinterpreterrubyjavascript-interpreter
billrobertson42/derby2pg
Dec 2016 - Jan 2024
Tool to migrate Apache Derby/JavaDB to PostgreSQL
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 7 years 2 months
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