William Soares
Engineering Manager at Automattic
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolWilliam Soares is an experienced engineering manager based in Madrid with 18 years building scalable web platforms and consumer-facing features. He has progressed from backend and frontend engineering roles to leading teams at Automattic, bringing hands-on experience across PHP, Java/Spring, Objective-C iOS, and Android client development. At Tuenti he helped design social features from the ground up—photo sharing, tagging and feed systems—while at idealista he refactored a major REST API for maintainability and testability. Known for bridging product and engineering, he combines deep implementation knowledge with people leadership to ship reliable systems at scale. An early contributor to multimedia and robotics projects during his academic years, he blends practical engineering with a curiosity for applied research.
18 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Universitat Jaume I
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
jetpack10
wordpress10
redux10
plugin10
security10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
js10
nodejs10
react10
csharp9
sdk9
azure-bot-service9
bot-framework8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vianasw/fashion-classifier
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:49 commits, 36 pushes, 4 branches in 15 days
vianasw/ipython-notebooks
Nov 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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