William Aldrich
Principal Software Engineer at Pluralsight
West Jordan, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Aldrich is a Principal Software Engineer with eight years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and streaming data platforms, currently leading Pluralsight’s shift to real-time streaming with Kafka and Flink. He blends deep functional Scala expertise with hands-on AWS, Kubernetes, and observability work to deliver robust ETL, API, and data-quality solutions across organizations. William has a track record of mentoring and training engineers globally, having led cross-team and international knowledge transfers from Ukraine to India. His background spans security-focused malware analysis at Symantec/Broadcom and applied machine learning for anomaly detection during internships, giving him a practical edge in reliability and threat-aware engineering. Based in West Jordan, Utah, he pairs a Master of Software Development with a psychology and criminology foundation that informs his analytical, user-aware approach to system design.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
German
Github Skills (24)
transport10
data-replication10
real-time-data10
streaming10
scala9
akka9
kafka9
data-streams9
replication9
endpoint7
slack5
rest5
api5
restful5
restful-api4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
w-aldrich/PersonalPythonScripts
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
w-aldrich/PersonalJavaPrograms
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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