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 (60)
middleware10
router10
server10
mux9
api9
rust9
compiler8
go8
duplicates8
standard-library8
rust-lang8
golang8
amazon8
difflib7
amazon-web-services7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rdwilliamson/aws
Sep 2012 - Mar 2015
Contributions:174 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 6 months
golangapigolang-libraryamazonweb-services
rdwilliamson/geometry
Jan 2001 - Feb 2014
Contributions:227 commits in 13 years 3 months
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