William Garay
VP Of Software Engineering at ConstructAI
Piura, Peru
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Garay is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with ~14 years of professional experience and nearly two decades of self-taught web development practice, currently serving as VP of Software Engineering at ConstructAI and CTO & Co-Founder of Shoppy.chat. He co-founded GoJom (YC W22) and has a strong Rails/Ruby background, shipping user-focused products and SEO-optimized web platforms across LatAm. William specializes in building powerful search solutions with ElasticSearch/OpenSearch and leads applied generative AI efforts that produce conversational chatbots to improve UX and operational efficiency. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed critical issues in the Sorcery authentication library for Rails, addressing OAuth2/OpenSSL and brute-force protection bugs. A vocal advocate for remote work, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, often taking product-minded ownership from architecture to deployment. Outside tech he is an avid mountain biker, casual traveler, and animal welfare supporter—small details that reflect his appetite for practical challenges and resilience.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBibliotecología y Ciencia de la Información, Bibliotecología y Ciencia de la Información at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San MarcosPorfesional Técnico en Computación e Informática Computación e Informática, Porfesional Técnico en Computación e Informática Computación e Informática at Computronic TechWeb Developer Desarrollo Web Técnicas SEO Administrador de base de datos, Web Developer Desarrollo Web Técnicas SEO Administrador de base de datos at Autodidacta
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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namespaces
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Github Skills (17)
ruby-rails10
user-authentication10
authentication10
rails10
ruby10
oauth10
validation9
openssl9
ruby-on-rails9
namespaces9
vuejs26
memcached6
caching6
sti6
javascript6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NoamB/sorcery
Sep 2011 - Nov 2011
Magical authentication for Rails 3 & 4
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on resolving issues and enhancing the functionality of the Sorcery authentication library for Rails. They addressed an OpenSSL error related to OAuth2, made the CA file configurable in the initializer, and fixed a path error. Additionally, they implemented changes to skip user validations when creating a user from a provider, and corrected a syntax error related to brute force protection.
railsauthenticationrubyspree
willywg/panoramio-rb
Oct 2011 - May 2016
Contributions:44 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 4 years 7 months
gemrubyphotos
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