William Simms
Software Engineer at wbsimms.com
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Simms is a software engineer in Austin, Texas with 13 years of experience focused on delivering high-quality .NET software on time and on budget. He blends hands-on backend development—contributing to the official Elasticsearch .NET client—with advisory work as an SDLC auditor and presenter on advanced Agile practices. William helps teams stay on track by emphasizing measurable efficiency, rigorous quality, and practical collaboration between developers and management. His talks and writings translate delivery pain points into actionable strategies for small, high-impact teams. A Boston University alumnus with further doctoral studies at Harvard Medical School, he pairs technical depth with a systems-level view of risk and cost in software projects. Notably, his open-source contributions include improving span query support and boosting behavior in Elasticsearch client query descriptors, showing attention to both correctness and real-world search scenarios.
13 years of coding experience
PhD, PhD at Harvard Medical SchoolHS, HS at Putnam City North High SchoolBS, BS at Boston University
English
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Github Skills (16)
querydsl10
unit-testing10
asp-net10
net10
elasticsearch-net10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
dotnet10
aws-elasticsearch10
csharp10
nest10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
api-design9
uwp6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch-net
Oct 2014 - Nov 2014
This strongly-typed, client library enables working with Elasticsearch. It is the official client maintained and supported by Elastic.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 comments, 1 issue in 6 days
Contributions summary:William's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Elasticsearch .NET client library. They implemented features related to span queries, adding support for boosting in `SpanNearQuery`, `SpanFirstQuery`, `SpanNotQuery`, and `SpanOrQuery`. These changes involved modifying query descriptors and updating unit tests. Furthermore, the user appears to have merged updates from the 'develop' branch, integrating the latest changes into the codebase.
dot-net-clientelasticsearch-netdot-netclient-libraryelastic
DevFoundries/LogicEngine
Sep 2014 - Feb 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 46 commits, 27 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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