Will Axtell
Principal Software Engineer at NexaMotion Group
Northfield, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolWill Axtell is a Principal Software Engineer with two decades of experience designing and modernizing large-scale, cloud-native platforms, currently leading APIs and integrations for a $100M+ automotive aftermarket e-commerce business. He specializes in event-driven architectures, marketplace connectivity, and DevOps modernization, having migrated an on-prem API catalog to AWS Fargate and re-architected integrations with Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Shopify into asynchronous pipelines. A pragmatic AI adopter, he has built Claude- and Copilot-assisted developer workflows, automated incident response, and AI-powered content and invoice processing with human-in-the-loop validation. Previously he led high-performing engineering teams at Verizon Connect and Fleetmatics, driving scalability for systems handling millions of daily requests while maintaining exceptional team engagement. Comfortable across the full SDLC, he blends hands-on implementation with mentorship and architectural leadership across industries from semiconductors to insurance and gaming. Based in Northfield, Ohio, he pairs practical cloud expertise and a collaborative style with an experimental streak—his motto “Be as you wish to seem” informs a thoughtful, user-facing engineering approach.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of PittsburghCleveland State University
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Github Skills (71)
octopus10
octopus-deploy10
event-data9
api9
swagger-tools8
logger8
unstructured8
authenticate8
serilog8
csharp8
asp-net-core7
swagger7
asp-net7
openapi7
shopify-api7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
waxtell/AWSXRay.Http.Extension
Mar 2020 - Aug 2024
Capture HTTP request/response details and send them to AWS XRay
Contributions:16 PRs, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
http-requestrequestawsdetailsaws-xray
waxtell/AWSSQS.LongPoll.BackgroundService
May 2019 - Jul 2023
HostBuilder Background service for monitoring AWS SQS queue
Contributions:3 releases, 13 PRs, 22 pushes in 4 years 2 months
sqs-queueaws-sqsbackground-serviceaws-monitoringaws
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