Will Carhart
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Carhart is a backend engineer with a decade of experience building API platforms, distributed systems, and cloud-native infrastructure, currently contributing to Stripe's API Platform. He brings hands-on expertise across Node.js, Python, GCP/AWS, Docker, and PostgreSQL, having owned tooling and infrastructure work at Wisk and automation systems at Illumina. Will pairs pragmatic engineering with an eye for developer experience, shipping reliable APIs and internal tools that scale in production. His background includes full-stack work, teaching and academic honors (BS in CS, magna cum laude), which informs clear technical communication and mentoring. Based in San Diego, he maintains an active GitHub and personal site, reflecting a curiosity-driven approach—he jokes that "Python is just advanced pseudocode" and experiments across languages and deployment models.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Computer Science minor in Mathematics, BS in Computer Science minor in Mathematics at University of San DiegoQueen Mary University of London
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
2,735reputation
352kreached
61answers
45questions
Github Skills (65)
act10
doc9
coregraphics9
full-stack9
javascript8
markdown8
vue8
graph8
docsify8
command-line-tool7
cli7
github-pages7
canvas7
mongodb7
eagle7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wcarhart/konphig
Aug 2018 - Dec 2022
Config files for safe keeping 😏
Contributions:8 releases, 290 commits, 40 PRs in 4 years 4 months
configsafeconfig-fileskeeping
wcarhart/willcarh.art
Dec 2020 - Mar 2024
Personal porfolio website, custom static site generator
Contributions:6 releases, 12 PRs, 65 pushes in 3 years 3 months
static-site-generatorstatic-site
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