Wil Simpson
Lead Solutions Engineer at Freelance
Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolWil Simpson is a Lead Solutions Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native systems and leading cross-functional integration for automotive ADAS programs. He combines hands-on architecture and full-stack development—Go, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, gRPC, Angular/React—with practical observability and HIPAA-conscious engineering from his freelance consulting work. At Cognizant he optimized ROS2 components and led integration of multiple ADAS features across eight vehicle platforms, reducing resource use and improving real-time performance. Now at Magna, he applies that blend of embedded, cloud, and systems-level experience to deliver scalable solutions for complex vehicle and enterprise deployments. Notably, his background spans both operator-level roles and technical leadership, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for operational constraints when designing software.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Iowa
English
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Github Skills (56)
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openid-connect9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ShatteredRealms/launcher
Aug 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 year 8 months
ShatteredRealms/go-backend
Feb 2023 - Apr 2024
Golang API Backend for Shattered Realms Online
Contributions:6 PRs, 145 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
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