William Schaefer
Software Engineer at Computer SOS, Inc.
Carlinville, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Schaefer is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of professional experience building and maintaining Java-centric systems and contributing to open-source digital forensics projects like The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy. He has strong C++ and systems experience from work on real-time simulators and validation tools at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and has served in technical lead and scrum master roles. Comfortable in support and QA contexts, he pairs hands-on coding with a habit of producing clear, reproducible bug reports and validation artifacts. William is open to deepening his Java specialization or learning another object‑oriented language with employer-supported training. Based in Carlinville, Illinois, he brings a mix of academic breadth across multiple universities and practical attention to detail honed by both engineering and customer-facing roles. A practical collaborator, he often leverages existing proven code to deliver accurate, testable results quickly.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Bachelor of Arts, Economics at University of Hawaii at ManoaComputer Science, Computer Science at Boston UniversityH.S. Diploma, H.S. Diploma at Illinois Mathematics and Science AcademyComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at Blackburn College
Github Skills (8)
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enforcement10
autopsy10
incident-response10
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military10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wschaeferB/autopsy
Oct 2016 - Dec 2021
Autopsy® is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools. It can be used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer. You can even use it to recover photos from your camera's memory card. Installers can be found at: http://www.sf.net/projects/autopsy/files/autopsy
Contributions:1843 pushes, 1078 branches in 5 years 2 months
memoryenforcementcameraforensicslaw
wschaeferB/sleuthkit
Jan 2017 - Nov 2021
The Sleuth Kit® (TSK) is a library and collection of command line digital forensics tools that allow you to investigate volume and file system data. The library can be incorporated into larger digital forensics tools and the command line tools can be directly used to find evidence.
Contributions:66 pushes, 74 branches in 4 years 10 months
command-line-toolsvolumeforensicsdigital-forensicsinvestigate
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