Bill West
Principal Software Engineer at Walt Disney Imagineering
Santa Clarita, California, United States
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Top SchoolBill West is a Principal Software Engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience and 13 years in his current role at Walt Disney Imagineering, where he designs and implements show-control systems, GUIs, communications, image manipulation, and device control primarily in C++ and Python. He combines deep object-oriented design expertise with practical cross-platform GUI work on both Windows and Linux, and has a background building mission-critical interfaces for NASA's Deep Space Network at JPL. Known for producing reliable, safety-conscious software used in live environments, he bridges low-level device control and high-level operator experiences. Based in Santa Clarita, California, he brings a steady, pragmatic engineering approach shaped by long-term work on complex, real-time systems that demand robustness and clear human interaction.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Santa Ana High SchoolCalifornia State University, Fullerton
Github Skills (44)
boilerplate10
data-export9
fitbit9
python8
replication8
jmap8
duplicate8
smtp8
ember-addon8
server7
imap7
dcos7
partitioning7
management7
batch7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wwest4/3d-parts
Oct 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
wwest4/dotfiles
Nov 2018 - Sep 2024
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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