William B
Senior Platform Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam B is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Chicago with 9 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining resilient infrastructure across media, fintech, and enterprise SaaS. He has progressed from application administration to senior SRE/DevOps roles at companies like Dom & Tom, Wowza, and now Green Thumb Industries, blending systems implementation, networking, hardware repair, and information security. William specializes in making complex distributed systems reliable and operationally manageable, with a practical knack for diagnosing hardware-level issues that many platform engineers overlook. He brings deep production experience in streaming and platform services, having supported high-availability workloads at Wowza and interactive gaming/entertainment platforms earlier in his career. A DePaul University Information Systems graduate, he pairs formal training with a long track record of incremental platform improvements that reduce toil and improve observability. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who values durable solutions over quick fixes and often surfaces root causes others miss.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
General Education, General Education, General Education, General Education at Wright CollegeBachelor's of Science, Information Systems, Bachelor's of Science, Information Systems at DePaul UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at St Patrick High School
English, Japanese
Github Skills (39)
docker10
rancher10
cattle10
container-management9
kubernetes9
mouse9
orchestration9
keyboard8
network7
synergy6
aws-ecs6
orb5
ios4
terraform-provider4
terraform4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DomAndTom/terraform-aws-ecs-service
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Creates an ECS Service.
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 day
ecsecs-serviceamazon-web-servicesterraformaws
wjbabicz/twenty-crm-helm
Feb 2026 - Feb 2026
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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