Summary
William Kluge is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in penetration testing, systems programming, and workload simulation across frontend and backend environments. He has driven security-focused initiatives at IBM—leading blackbox penetration tests, investigating IBM i vulnerabilities, and verifying patches—and now applies that expertise to production systems at Wealthfront. William is comfortable shipping cross-language solutions (Python, Java, TypeScript, REXX/JCL) and has automated administrative workflows and migrations that improved team productivity and collaboration. He has built tooling for large-scale testing and monitoring, pioneered GitHub adoption in teams, and even invented a patented data transformation algorithm at a previous startup. Based in Rochester, Minnesota, he blends deep technical rigor with the ability to translate security findings and complex requirements to diverse stakeholders. An unusual strength is his track record of designing artistic, client-specific test workloads that uncover real-world failure modes before they reach customers.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Marist College