Bill Wheeler
Senior Developer at SegMetrics
Salem, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Wheeler is a Senior Developer with over 20 years of professional software and systems experience and 11 years of documented industry roles, currently engineering at SegMetrics while running his own Web Dynamyx agency. He specializes in Laravel, WordPress, PHP, MySQL and front-end technologies, and combines deep full‑stack development with five-plus years focused on marketing, UI/UX and conversion optimization. Bill has built everything from enterprise business flows and live auction platforms to targeted bug fixes, and led a 2000+ hour custom real-estate funding system as an IT Director. An accomplished SysAdmin and command-line enthusiast since the RedHat 6.1 era, he has run ISPs and managed extensive server fleets across Linux and Windows environments. He contributes to open-source PHP tooling—improving GitHub API client caching and membership features—demonstrating pragmatic backend improvements that boost efficiency. Based in Salem, Arkansas, he blends freelance agility with senior engineering discipline for consulting, troubleshooting and complex project delivery.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at DeVry University
Github Skills (6)
caching10
php10
api10
github-api10
apidoc10
object-oriented-programming9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
KnpLabs/php-github-api
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
A simple PHP GitHub API client, Object Oriented, tested and documented.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 14 days
Contributions summary:Bill primarily contributed to the backend of the `php-github-api` project, focusing on extending the functionality of the API client. Their work involved implementing features related to organization membership management, such as restricting member lists by role and adding methods to get and add members. Additionally, the user optimized the caching mechanism within the client, limiting it to GET and HEAD requests, thereby enhancing efficiency. They also fixed variable names and improved code structure.
api-clientapidocumentedphphateoas
phpdreams/laravel-vue-example-app
Jul 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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