William Salemé
Lead Software Engineer at SSENSE
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Salemé is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient, cost-effective distributed systems and leading small engineering teams from Edmonton, Canada. He has a strong track record delivering cloud-native and containerized production systems—reducing infrastructure costs by over 60% in one migration, cutting API latency 5x through pragmatic crypto and auth tradeoffs, and designing high-throughput event pipelines with AWS Kinesis. Comfortable bridging technical and business stakeholders, he has collaborated closely with Data Science/ML teams and C-suite leaders to prioritize and ship cross-functional product features. A hands-on architect who also mentors and manages delivery, he combines deep systems thinking with practical engineering trade-offs honed across startups and product companies. Notably, his background includes founding a digital agency and negotiating vendor agreements that kept early-stage platforms both scalable and cost-efficient.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, 3.75, Computer Science, 3.75 at University of AlbertaComputer Science, 3.8, Computer Science, 3.8 at University of Calgary
French, English
Github Skills (21)
prefixes9
nike6
datastax6
bash6
nodejs4
java4
perl4
php4
python4
tcl4
cpp3
thread-safety3
cassandra3
mongodb-database3
laravel2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
williamsaleme/williamsaleme.github.io
Aug 2015 - Feb 2025
The Official Page for William Salemé
Contributions:99 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 8 months
javascriptreact
wmxscott/bash-script-generator
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Generates a Bash Script Template that handles Arguments and Flags Cleanly
Contributions:1 release, 40 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
bash
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