Summary
William Shaw is a Software Engineer with eight years of experience building microservices, distributed systems, and data-intensive ingestion pipelines, currently focused on cloud-native architectures across AWS and Kubernetes. He has a proven track record modernizing legacy on-prem systems into containerized Node.js services, optimizing GraphQL-backed queries and MongoDB indexes to reduce latency by up to 90%, and implementing observability with Splunk for real-time operational insights. His work spans end-to-end data flows—designing ingestion, schema validation, batching, and translation layers that power low-latency machine-to-machine APIs and OpenSearch-enabled queries. He’s actively augmenting his technical depth through an MS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech while continuing to deliver mission-critical systems at General Dynamics Mission Systems. An attention to subtle correctness shows in fixes like resolving geospatial wrapping across the prime meridian, reflecting a practical blend of systems engineering and data integrity focus.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rowan University