Bill Thompson
Staff Software Engineer at PayPal
Leander, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorBill Thompson is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient web applications and backend systems, currently working at PayPal after senior engineering roles at EasyPost and BigCommerce. He specializes in Ruby and Rails, designing services that communicate via RESTful JSON, gRPC, and message brokers like RabbitMQ, and routinely owns end-to-end features or entire services. As a pragmatic architect and mentor, he enforces coding and design standards, helps resolve high-impact production issues, and prioritizes team growth over individual credit. Based in Leander, Texas, he pairs deep backend expertise with the willingness to jump into frontend work when it speeds delivery, reflecting a hands-on leadership style that quietly elevates his teams.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (58)
grpc-ruby10
ruby-wrapper9
ruby9
rails9
waterfall9
protobuf9
grpc9
netsuite9
bookmarklet9
sketchup9
marks8
lightstep8
region8
geographic7
navigation-api7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bigcommerce-labs/enom
Oct 2014 - Oct 2017
Enom API - Ruby Wrapper
Contributions:4 releases, 9 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years
ruby-wrapperapienomrubynetsuite
billthompson/dotfiles
Aug 2017 - Sep 2024
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
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