Billy Fowks
Founding Principal Engineer at Troost Gardens
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolBilly Fowks is a founding principal engineer with 11 years of experience building web applications, currently leading architecture and product delivery at UserEvidence from Kansas City. He combines deep Ruby on Rails backend expertise with modern front-end work in Vue.js, and has held senior engineering and architect roles at auction and art-tech companies like Hindman Auctions and ArtBinder. As a founder of Troost Gardens, he blends technical leadership with community-driven arts curation, an unusual crossover that informs his product sensibilities. His career includes staff engineering roles at fast-growing startups and consulting for brands like Warby Parker, demonstrating a track record of scaling teams and systems. Trained in electrical and computer engineering at Vanderbilt, he brings formal engineering rigor to practical, user-focused software design.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. of E.E., Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, B.S. of E.E., Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University
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Github Skills (49)
puppeteer10
receipt10
omniauth9
rendering9
authentication9
json-api9
pdf9
heroku9
api9
oauth9
chrome9
devise8
html8
png8
wordpress-database8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fowkswe/pressar
Nov 2015 - Jan 2019
ActiveRecord models for the Wordpress database schema
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
activerecordwordpress-database
userevidence/port-hercules
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
UserEvidence Content Assets
Contributions:3 reviews, 8 PRs, 136 pushes in 9 months
assetszeroserver
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