William Lightning
Systems Architect at Retail Service Systems, Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Lightning is a systems architect in Portland, Oregon with 20 years of hands-on experience building and operating custom business software, cloud infrastructure, and support systems. He has designed and maintained production Kubernetes and Chef-driven environments while leading and mentoring multiple small development teams to deliver over twenty bespoke enterprise systems. William pairs deep systems administration roots—running a web hosting/collocation business he bought and operated for years—with practical application development across EDI, warehouse, and ad-publishing platforms for large retailers and partners. Comfortable in most modern languages, he has repeatedly taken sole-IT responsibility for mission-critical operations and integrations (including Walmart/Costco/Target EDI setups), showing a rare blend of ops-level rigor and product-focused delivery. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture that keeps production stable while enabling iterative improvement and automation.
20 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Classes, Computer Science, Classes, Computer Science at Portland State UniversityClasses, Computer Science, Classes, Computer Science at Portland Community CollegeClasses, Business and Financial Accounting, Classes, Business and Financial Accounting at Clackamas Community College
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Github Skills (127)
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encryption10
laravel10
storage10
file-manager10
filesystem10
php10
novnc10
javascript9
validation9
linux9
hapi9
skeleton9
wss9
rust9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kassah/modal
Jul 2023 - Jan 2024
Fork for PRs to wire-elements/modal
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
dineshkummarc/imscp2_backup
Apr 2011 - Apr 2011
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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