William Ashley
Software Development Engineer III at Amazon
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Ashley is a pragmatic software engineer with 12+ years of production experience building large-scale distributed systems, currently a Software Development Engineer III at Amazon in Austin. He has driven networking and connectivity infrastructure across AWS Outposts and Graviton initiatives, designed local gateway control and data planes, and previously shipped real-time streaming and visualization services for Amazon Go. Earlier roles at Veoh and On-Ramp show deep hands-on expertise in scalable back-end systems, search, and network gateways, including tooling, code generators, and operational visibility platforms. He combines low-level build and C/C++ systems work with cloud-native service design, and has a track record of moving proprietary protocols to standard interfaces to enable horizontal scalability. William’s background reflects a blend of startup agility and large-scale production discipline, with a knack for improving developer workflows and operational tooling.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at University of San Diego
Github Skills (58)
graviton10
java10
amazon-ec210
arm10
aws-cdk9
dotnet9
debugging9
python9
scala9
performance-monitoring9
aws9
sql9
cli9
logging9
cpp9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wash-amzn/aperf
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
A CLI tool to gather performance data and visualize using HTML graphs. Data from multiple collection runs can be viewed side-by-side, allowing for easy comparison of the same workload across different system configurations.
Contributions:22 releases, 66 pushes, 9 branches in 11 months
wash-amzn/arm64-python-wheel-tester
Jun 2022 - Apr 2024
Test python wheels import correctly on Graviton2
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
pythongraviton2testingpython-wheelswheels
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