William Sorensen
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Sorensen is a Senior Software Engineer and architect with 14 years of experience designing and delivering full software lifecycles across healthcare, insurance, payroll, and SaaS domains. He currently contributes to Grafana Labs and Velocity Global, blending hands-on full-stack development with system-level architecture for cloud-native and microservice extractions. Previously he led engineering and mentoring efforts at Jellyvision and served as an enterprise architect guiding API gateways, C4 modeling, and integrations for a multi-billion-dollar insurer. Known for translating monolithic Node.js systems into maintainable microservices and building DSL-based message translators, he pairs deep technical craft with strong cross-functional communication. Based in Denver, he also brings an educator’s instinct—formal mentorship and tailored training—to raise junior engineers’ skills. Outside work he signals a passion for design and play as an architect, developer, and gamer.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
testing10
visual-studio10
isolation10
schema10
portable10
browser10
html10
schema-validation10
javascript-tools10
storybook-addon10
fetch10
nodejs10
svelte10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
TrueWill/react-forms-options
Apr 2019 - Oct 2020
Examples and comparisons of handling forms in React in different ways
Contributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 6 months
reacthandlinghigher-order-componentcomparisonsreact-forms
TrueWill/embracer
Jul 2017 - Jul 2022
MET Vampire the Masquerade character generator
Contributions:27 releases, 620 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years
larpmetcharacter-generatorvampirecharacter
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