William Lichtenberger
Principal Engineer at PayIt
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Lichtenberger is a Principal Engineer and Java architect with over two decades of experience designing scalable, observable enterprise systems and a 13-year track record in senior technical roles. He specializes in GraphQL API design, distributed system architecture, and production-first observability, with a pragmatic emphasis on measurability and operability. William drives end-to-end automation and fast feedback loops to help high-performing teams ship quickly and safely, having led architecture and automation at PayIt and Lexmark and technical direction at FanThreeSixty and Gradle. His background in electrical and computer engineering plus study of Spanish literature speaks to a blend of analytical rigor and cross-cultural communication. Based in Kansas City, he pairs hands-on engineering with leadership, moving systems from conceptual architecture into auditable, production-ready platforms. An engineer who values operational clarity, he often focuses on making systems not just scalable but easy to run and improve in real production environments.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish Language and Literature, Spanish Language and Literature at Universitat d'AlacantBachelor of Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Iowa
Github Skills (59)
gradle10
kotlin10
groovy10
java10
automation10
grails9
maintenance-mode8
testing7
webservice7
rest7
sbt-plugin6
jetty6
jax-rs6
dropwizard6
hibernate6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
w25r/sources-gradle-plugin
Mar 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 10 months
gradlekotlinjavadocartifactsjava
gradle/ge-export
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:12 PRs, 20 pushes, 12 branches in 1 month
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