William Dillon
President & Founder at Housedillon Inc.
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Dillon is a seasoned technology founder and CTO with over a decade of experience turning research-driven ideas into award-winning, patented products in home automation and power management. As President of Housedillon and former CTO roles at Racepoint Energy and Savant, he has led R&D, prototyping, M&A technical due diligence, and scaled engineering teams from a handful to ~60 people while driving product strategies that delivered measurable cost savings and market partnerships. He combines deep systems and embedded software expertise—evidenced by contributions to Swift corelibs and hardware-focused Swift libraries—with practical product delivery across cloud SaaS, IoT, and manufacturing. William favors projects that create lasting social and sustainability impact and is hands-on from architecture to DevOps, often translating executive vision into working prototypes that close deals. Based in Corvallis, Oregon, he pairs a PhD in computer science with an aviator’s discipline—a licensed instrument-rated private pilot who volunteers for medical and disaster missions—bringing a calm, empathetic leadership style to fast-moving technical programs.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at The Evergreen State CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Oregon State University
English
Github Skills (18)
architecture10
linux10
gpio10
iot10
adc10
sys10
arm10
embedded10
swift10
raspberry-pi10
architectures10
build-system8
uart7
spi7
pwm7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
uraimo/SwiftyGPIO
Jan 2016 - Sep 2018
A Swift library for hardware projects on Linux/ARM boards with support for GPIOs/SPI/I2C/PWM/UART/1Wire.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on adding and verifying hardware support for various platforms including Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone Black, and CHIP. Their contributions included providing example code for interacting with GPIO pins and ADC interfaces. They demonstrated expertise in adapting the library to different hardware configurations and adding features specific to these platforms. The user also made adjustments to enable the project to build on iOS, indicating a broadening of the project's target audience.
linux-armserialbluepilllcd-displayraspberry-pi
swiftlang/swift-corelibs-foundation
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
The Foundation Project, providing core utilities, internationalization, and OS independence
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 11 PRs, 49 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the Swift Foundation library, focusing on platform-specific implementations and bug fixes. Their work involved adding support for ARMv7 on Linux, addressing word size issues, and resolving compile issues on ARM architecture. Furthermore, the user made corrections to NSXMLNodeOptions and other related code, fixing issues related to NSDateFormatter and ensuring proper functionality across different platforms.
tvostranslationinternationalizationfoundationindependence
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