William Wallace
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Greater St. Louis United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Wallace is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building backend systems primarily in Java, and pragmatic fluency in C#, C++, and JavaScript, with occasional front-end work in React and Angular. He has delivered production software across finance, retail, and government contracting at companies including Shopify and Goldman Sachs, often leading small teams and owning projects end-to-end. A hands-on mentor, he prioritizes developer growth and pays forward knowledge to raise team capability alongside delivering business value. He favors choosing the right tool for the problem rather than defaulting to a single language, and has a track record of root-cause analysis and operational reliability in high-stakes environments. Based in Greater St. Louis, he combines enterprise-grade discipline with a practical, problem-first engineering approach.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Engineering, BS Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington
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Github Skills (8)
classpath6
compilation6
jar6
jdbc6
iphone6
database6
security6
java6
Github contributions (5)
wwallaceii/Android-Loan-Calculator
Apr 2011 - Sep 2011
Contributions:3 commits in 5 months
wwallaceii/AdventOfCode2021
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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