William Ernest
Director Of Engineering at Silectis
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Ernest is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building software for energy and industrial domains, currently leading engineering at Silectis. He combines deep systems and software skills across C/C++/C#, Python, JavaScript, SQL and Unix scripting with a strong mathematical and analytics background (MS, Analytics from Georgia Tech). His career spans roles from chemistry technician at TVA—giving him practical operational insight—through senior systems and data engineering at Grid Protection Alliance, to solutions and leadership positions that bridge product, implementation, and reliability. Known as a detail-oriented critical thinker and fast learner, he brings pragmatic Agile engineering, UML-driven design, and extensive cross-platform tooling experience to complex grid and industrial software problems. Based in Chattanooga, he pairs formal computer science training (BS, magna cum laude) with full‑stack web certification, enabling both low-level performance work and higher-level system architecture.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude at Florida State UniversityFull Stack Web Developement Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Developement Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampMaster of Science - MS, Analytics, Master of Science - MS, Analytics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree, Biochemistry, Bachelor's Degree, Biochemistry at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
English, Spanish
Github Skills (96)
data-stream10
dashboard10
github10
complex-event-processing10
duplicates10
meter10
extensible10
stream-processing10
monitoring10
scheduled-tasks10
feed10
data-storage10
data-visualization10
pdc10
git10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wbernest/mattermost-plugin-rssfeed
Mar 2019 - Jan 2022
Mattermost RSSFeed plugin. Allows users to subscribe to an rss feed and allow for updates to the feed to be posted in a channel.
Contributions:9 releases, 81 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years 10 months
rssrssfeedupdatesrss-feedautoupdate
GridProtectionAlliance/PQDashboard
Mar 2016 - May 2021
Dashboard for system-wide visualization of power quality data
Contributions:2 releases, 528 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 2 months
data-qualitydata-visualizationpowerdashboardquality
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