William Hood
Test Strategy Engineer
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Hood is a Test Strategy Engineer with nine years focused on back-end test automation and a decades-long career in SDET roles across enterprise and contract environments. He programs primarily in Kotlin, Java, and Go, and has contributed to building and maintaining custom internal test frameworks and tooling. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he blends hands-on development with test strategy, moving between senior SDET and lead engineering roles at companies like Akamai, Act-On, and Source. He also ships side projects—most notably an Android game "Ravaging" and multi-language implementations of a direct-to-HTML logging system in Go and Rust—demonstrating an appetite for cross-platform tooling and practical experimentation. Collected experience from Microsoft through modern cloud and media firms gives him a strong foundation in scalable test systems and pragmatic automation. He’s the kind of engineer who treats testing as product code, preferring durable frameworks and language interoperability over brittle scripts.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of WashingtonComputer Science, Computer Science at Washington State UniversityBachelor of Arts Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts Computer Science at University at AlbanyAlbion Class of 1990Avon Jr/Sr High SchoolAssociate of Science Computer Science, Associate of Science Computer Science at Finger Lakes Community College
Github Skills (18)
intellij-idea9
intellij-plugin8
kotlin-jvm8
intellij7
kotlin6
java6
jvm4
csharp4
snap2
angular2
angularjs2
podcast2
tablet2
linux1
typescript1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
william-hood/Hoodland-Open-Source-Projects
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
Kotlin version (with Java wrappers) of my HTML Logging System, Test Framework and other C#/Java legacy projects. (for IntelliJ IDEA CE environment)
Contributions:5 releases, 130 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 10 months
intellij-ideakotlinjvmintellij-pluginjava
william-hood/Rockabilly_CSharp
Oct 2016 - Jun 2020
Port of Java Rockabilly Common back into C#
Contributions:3 PRs, 39 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 8 months
javacsharp
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