Robert Williamson
Staff Software Engineer at Visa
Belfast Metropolitan Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRobert Williamson is a Staff Software Engineer with 25 years' experience building payment and enterprise software from Belfast, currently at Visa after senior roles at Global Payments, TSYS and Kofax. He combines deep hands-on development—unit testing and platform extensions—with a track record of delivering production solutions on payments and workflow platforms. Comfortable across backend and integration-focused projects, he brings practical engineering discipline and a continual learning mindset. Notably, his career moved from e-commerce and JavaScript beginnings into repeated senior staff roles in payments technology, reflecting both domain depth and adaptability.
25 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) electronics and computer systems, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) electronics and computer systems at University of Ulster
English
Github Skills (46)
middleware10
router9
amazon-web-services9
server9
rest9
go9
rest-api9
rust9
compiler8
http-router8
http8
rust-lang7
golang7
crate7
code-generation7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rdwilliamson/aws
Sep 2012 - Mar 2015
Golang library for interacting with Amazon Web Services's REST API.
Contributions:174 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 6 months
amazon-web-servicesgolangrestrest-api
rdwilliamson/geometry
Jan 2001 - Feb 2014
Contributions:227 commits in 13 years 3 months
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