Wil Black
Senior Software Developer at Solalla Web Services LLC
Toledo, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolWil Black is a senior software developer and former CTO with 14+ years building web and mobile systems that bridge science and industry, currently engineering backend services in Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot while maintaining a small web consultancy focused on data, GIS, and scientific applications. His uncommon combination of summa cum laude mathematics training and an M.S. in physical oceanography informs a pragmatic, measurement-driven approach to system design, data processing, and analytics. He has led teams and projects across startups and research institutions, shipping production apps that integrate mapping, telemetry, and REST APIs using stacks from Python/Django to React and TypeScript. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and a technical leader, he excels at turning domain knowledge into polished products—from ocean models and fisheries traceability to consumer-facing marketplaces. Based on the Oregon coast, he brings a hands-on maker mentality (robots, IoT) that keeps his engineering choices practical and experiment-driven.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.A, Mathematics, B.A, Mathematics at Oregon State UniversityM.S., Marine Science - Physical Oceanography, M.S., Marine Science - Physical Oceanography at UC Santa BarbaraM.A., Mathematics, M.A., Mathematics at University of California, Santa Barbara
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Github Skills (80)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wilblack/django-labels
Sep 2011 - Mar 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 7 months
djangopythonpdfpdf-a
wilblack/py-ramps
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Some python scripts to create mountain bike ramps templates
Contributions:1 review, 17 PRs, 45 pushes in 3 years
mountainpythonmountain-bikepython-3bike
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