William Collins
Senior Software Engineer at Ramp
Canada
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Top SchoolWilliam Collins is a Senior Software Engineer based in Canada with 14 years of experience building and scaling web applications across startups and established companies. He has been a founding front-end engineer at Equals, where he led core spreadsheet features, data integrations, dashboards that hit #1 on Product Hunt, and helped secure a16z-backed Series A funding. Previously he led front-end architecture and a small engineering team at SurveyMonkey, owning roadmap decisions and contributing substantial hands-on code across PHP, Python, and modern React stacks. His strengths lie in product-focused engineering—shipping reliable customer-facing features, designing pricing/packaging flows, and integrating third-party data systems like Fivetran and Stripe. Colleagues rely on him as a mentor and front-end authority who also aligns monitoring, on-call practices, and performance tooling with product goals. He combines startup grit with operational discipline, comfortable moving between strategic leadership and detailed implementation.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
npm10
realtime10
build-system10
app-platform10
rpc10
nodejs10
reactive-programming10
mongodb10
react10
zero-configuration9
microfrontend9
meteor9
bun9
inferno9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
applepicke/School_Stuff
Mar 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:45 commits in 8 months
applepicke/dotfiles
Mar 2017 - Sep 2024
Contributions:45 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 7 months
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