William Elder
Software Engineer at Experian
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Elder is a versatile software engineer based in Huntsville, Alabama, with a dozen years of professional experience and a BS in Software Engineering from Mississippi State University. He has shipped systems across the stack—from low-level firmware and embedded ARM solutions in C and FreeRTOS to large-scale data processing, ETL, and serverless migrations using Java and Python. At companies including Amazon, Zaden Technologies, and Experian he built scalable test frameworks, high-availability data proposals, and production services while improving CI/CD and deployment automation. He has hands-on experience designing containerized BDD test infrastructure that scales to tens of thousands of tests and has delivered mission-critical contracts for aerospace and defense customers. Known as a practical problem-solver and mentor, he balances fast delivery with long-term reliability and has repeatedly converted legacy processes into automated, maintainable systems. Practical curiosity drives him—he blends embedded control algorithms and real-time telemetry work with cloud-native architectures to solve diverse engineering challenges.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering at Mississippi State University
EnglishGithub contributions (5)
welder/seldon
Feb 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 7 pushes in 11 months
welder/welder.github.io
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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