Summary
Billy Mathison is a Senior Software Engineer in Nashville who blends seven years of hands-on full-stack development with 16 years of prior clinical experience in mental health, bringing a rare empathy-driven approach to problem solving. He has led engineering teams at Citizens to modernize mortgage origination workflows, improved CI/CD and observability practices, and built reusable front- and back-end boilerplate to accelerate delivery at scale. Proficient in .NET, Angular, microservices, containers, Kafka, and cloud CI/CD, he focuses on reducing technical debt and translating complex business and clinical requirements into intuitive, secure solutions. Billy’s background as a therapist informs his collaborative stakeholder engagement and his appetite for digging into problems end-to-end—he values not just diagnosing issues but implementing the fix.
7 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology, Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology at Middle Tennessee State University
Software Development, Software Development at Nashville Software School
Master’s Degree, Counseling, Master’s Degree, Counseling at Trevecca Nazarene University