W Trader

Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Services at BlackSky

Sterling, Virginia, United States
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W Trader is a seasoned Staff Software Engineer with four decades of hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying complex software across web, client-server, and embedded domains. He blends deep polyglot programming skills (Python, Java, C/C++, C#, JavaScript, Groovy) with strong database and DevOps expertise—Postgres, OrientDB/CosmosDB, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and Azure—to deliver reliable, production-grade systems. His background spans commercial and cybersecurity applications, UAV radio and flight-simulation tooling, and intelligent traffic systems, reflecting an ability to move between high-assurance and agile product environments. He prefers non-cleared, direct-hire roles and brings practical constraints awareness—remote or hybrid near Northern Virginia and no relocation—to hiring conversations. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring, architecture, and integration of heterogeneous systems, and his GitHub succinctly sums it up: he solves problems, usually with computers. Notably, he has repeatedly built virtualization and CI/CD infrastructures to accelerate development and testing across multi-team programs.
code13 years of coding experience
job22 years of employment as a software developer
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Github contributions (5)

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wcraigtrader/wbc

Apr 2015 - Apr 2026

Contributions:45 pushes in 11 years 1 month
wcraigtrader/ogp

Apr 2015 - Oct 2015

Contributions:71 commits, 47 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
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