William Read
Staff Software Engineer at Wand
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolWilliam Read is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building user-centric web, mobile and desktop applications, currently leading frontend efforts at Wand. He specializes in JavaScript across client and server stacks, favoring simplicity, standardization and iterative design to craft scalable, maintainable UIs. William has driven product migrations and platform growth—from leading a white-label e-commerce frontend through an acquisition to scaling WeMod’s apps used by over 15 million gamers. He moves quickly to adopt new tools (recently Aurelia and React) and regularly experiments with Unity game projects, bringing practical cross-disciplinary insights to product UX. Known for turning complex business needs into elegant front-end solutions, he’s equally comfortable as a solo contributor or as a technical lead growing engineering capability. Based in Calgary, he’s self-taught and thrives on picking up new technologies at breakneck speed to solve real product problems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Self Taught
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Github Skills (30)
rise9
directive8
scrollable7
solidus6
html-template6
angularjs5
payment5
payment-methods5
scrolling5
stripe5
checkout5
computer-vision4
stripe-api3
angular3
ecommerce3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
willread/gamera-api
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Node/express api for gamera.org.
Contributions:246 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
apinode-expressexpressexpress-apinodejs
willread/gamera
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
Angular 10 frontend for gamera.org.
Contributions:197 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 5 months
typescriptangular-10frontendangular
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