William Kelso
Assistant Manager at Café Soul Cups
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Kelso is a computer engineering graduate and systems-level developer with 11 years of hands-on experience bridging hardware and software. He excels in firmware, compiler-adjacent work, and embedded C/C++ libraries, having led electrical design and firmware efforts for competitive autonomous underwater robots. As Electrical Team Lead for AquaPack Robotics he improved on-boarding, established an embedded style guide, and redesigned electronics hulls to increase fault tolerance and manufacturability. He combines technical rigor with curiosity in design and history, often drawing cross-disciplinary ideas to produce more elegant, usable systems. Based in Cary, NC, he balances industry work with customer-facing roles in hospitality that sharpen his communication and team leadership. An avid “oxford comma” advocate, he brings meticulousness and a preference for readable, debuggable code to every project.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Panther Creek High School
Spanish, English
Github Skills (59)
vala10
markup10
widgets10
freedesktop10
pantheon10
vector10
php10
gtk10
vector-icons10
typesetting10
clutter10
elementaryos10
appcenter10
text-editor9
stylesheets9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wpkelso/icons
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
Named, vector icons for elementary OS
Contributions:1 PR, 147 pushes, 45 branches in 11 months
ellie-commons/expandtheon
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Bringing 3rd-party support to Pantheon DE
Contributions:2 releases, 25 PRs, 78 pushes in 9 months
app-iconselementary-oselementaryosicon-pack
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