William Carroll
Co-Founder CEO at Observed Matter
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Carroll is a Co-Founder and pragmatic engineer with a decade of experience building reliable infrastructure, developer tooling, and full-stack applications across startups and Google. A functional programming zealot and Xoogler based in Austin, he blends SRE rigour with software and hardware work for manufacturing, having moved from Google SRE roles into founding Metal Cross. He’s contributed to open-source Clojure tooling—improving color transformation functions and tests in the well-regarded garden repo—reflecting attention to correctness and developer ergonomics. His background spans Haskell backends, GraphQL API design, and frontend UX with React/Redux and Tailwind, showing a comfort across the stack. Known for pragmatic refactors and clear documentation, he pairs infra-level thinking with product design sensibilities. He also brings an uncommon mix of accounting education and deep technical chops, which helps him balance business tradeoffs with engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Accounting, Bachelor of Science (BS) Accounting at Clemson UniversityGonzaga College High School
English, French, Italian
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Github Skills (12)
clojure10
color-theory10
clojure-cli10
testing9
clojurescript8
data-structure7
data-structures7
algorithm7
algorithms7
readonly6
python6
django6
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
noprompt/garden
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Generate CSS with Clojure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the `garden` project by implementing and refining color manipulation functions within the Clojure code. Their work included correcting scaling calculations for color lightness and saturation and adding new functions for alpha adjustments, enhancing color transformation capabilities. They refactored existing code, replacing an unnecessary function, and consistently clarified documentation to improve code clarity and usage. They also added various tests for the new color related functionalities.
clojurecssclojurescriptcss-compiler
wpcarro/ivy-clipmenu.el
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Ivy integration with cdown/clipmenu
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years
ivy
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