Summary
W Paysinger is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 10 years of experience building backend microservices and cloud-native systems. He transitioned from technical roles in the Air Force and emergency nursing into software, bringing a rare blend of disciplined systems thinking and high-pressure operational experience to production engineering. Over the past decade he has designed and tuned Python services, containerized workloads, and infrastructure-as-code across AWS at companies like Textio, Carmera, and Remitly. His work spans performance tuning of WSGI servers, drift-detection for ML model releases, and foundational mapping services, demonstrating both deep operational chops and a focus on reliability. Comfortable across the stack—Python, Docker, PostgreSQL, Lambda, ECS—he excels at making complex distributed systems predictable and maintainable. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions informed by real-world incident experience and rigorous testing.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree Nursing Science, Associate’s Degree Nursing Science at North Seattle College
Full Stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Code Fellows