Will Folsom
Director Of Engineering at Capitalize
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Folsom is an engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building web and backend systems, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Capitalize. He blends full-stack expertise—React/Angular front ends, TypeScript/Node, Go services, Postgres and AWS—with product-focused delivery across fintech and logistics domains. Will has a track record of shipping complex integrations (including payment solutions for fleet fuel cards at RoadSync) and improving maintainability through refactors and robust testing. An active contributor to the open-source Web Scrobbler project, he adds real-world connectors that demonstrate pragmatic DOM/JS problem solving beyond his day job. A Georgia Tech Computational Media graduate, he pairs technical curiosity (3D geospatial visualization and temporal data work earlier in his career) with a measured approach to scaling teams and systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computational Media, Bachelor of Science - BS Computational Media at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (8)
google-chrome-extension10
webextension10
javascript10
front-end-development10
chrome-extension10
css8
html8
xhtml8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
web-scrobbler/web-scrobbler
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Scrobble music all around the web!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 10 PRs in 29 days
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the development of new connectors for the web-scrobbler extension. They added support for various music streaming services, including Playlist Randomizer, Lounge.fm, Live365.com, FilmMusic.io, Calm, and Audacy. Their work involved writing JavaScript code to interact with the respective websites, identifying selectors for track metadata, and integrating them into the web-scrobbler framework. The user also refactored an existing connector for music-flo, demonstrating a focus on improving code efficiency and maintainability.
scrobblewebextensionlastfmlibrefmlistenbrainz
willfolsom/willfolsom.github.io
Oct 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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