William Forney
Lead Software Engineer at improvGroup, LLC
Mount Vernon, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Forney is a Lead Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and modernizing systems for enterprises from startups to Microsoft and Starbucks. He blends hands-on implementation (C#, .NET, TypeScript, Azure, Terraform) with architectural leadership, often steering technology choices and improving development processes. As founder of improvGroup and longtime consultant, he delivers pragmatic, cost-conscious solutions and risk-aligned roadmaps for clients while still diving into code and CI/CD improvements. He enjoys mentoring engineers and sparking architectural debates focused on outcomes rather than politics. Notably, he repeatedly returns to large retail point-of-sale and sales data pipelines, demonstrating deep domain experience in mission-critical, high-throughput systems. Based in Mount Vernon, WA, he balances long-term consultancy roles with embedded engineering tours that maximize business impact.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Big Spring High SchoolShippensburg University of Pennsylvania
English
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Github Skills (151)
winforms10
code-generation10
asp-net-identity10
windows-live10
repository-pattern10
azure-cosmos-db10
dotnet10
windows-forms10
generated-code10
crud10
static-site10
csharp10
asp-net-core-mvc10
asp-net-mvc10
utility10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wforney/btcpayserver
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Accept Bitcoin payments. Free, open-source & self-hosted, Bitcoin payment processor.
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
paymentsbitcoin-paymentsbitcoin-payment-processorhostedpayment-gateway
wforney/EspalierJS
Apr 2019 - Aug 2024
Tightly pruned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for a productive web development experience.
Contributions:13 PRs, 16 pushes, 12 branches in 5 years 4 months
cssjavascriptproductivehtml5web-development
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