Bruce Williams
Chief Architect at Selective
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBruce Williams is a seasoned engineering leader and chief architect based in Portland with two decades of experience building and modernizing large-scale distributed systems across startups and enterprise teams. He has driven architecture and operational excellence at GitHub—scaling the company's code search index and architecting early Copilot web features—and has deep familiarity with service-oriented migrations and API tooling. Previously a CTO and technical director, he combines hands-on platform design for SaaS logistics and merchant systems with proven people leadership that grows engineers into high-performance teams. Bruce’s background as a U.S. Air Force cryptologic linguist and Arabic-language graduate hints at a disciplined, security-minded approach and an aptitude for complex, data-driven problem solving. Currently advising an Elixir/Phoenix CI tooling startup while serving as Chief Architect at CargoSense, he balances strategic product collaboration with practical engineering delivery.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Graduated with Honors Arabic Language, Graduated with Honors Arabic Language at Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
Arabic
Github Skills (7)
absinthe9
api9
relay8
elixir8
apollo-client8
graphiql7
graphql7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
absinthe-graphql/absinthe
May 2017 - May 2017
The GraphQL toolkit for Elixir
Contributions:1 commit, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
servicesapirelayelixirgraphiql
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