William Wallace
Managing Director at Bongos Ventures
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Wallace is a technology entrepreneur and investor with a decade of experience building and scaling product-led companies, currently leading Amaze as Managing Director from Madrid. He co-founded and exited startups multiple times, most recently merging getWonder into Amaze to commercialize AI-driven personalized videos and conversational agents that serve global brands at massive scale. A hands-on engineer at heart, he contributed backend work to open-source Laravel tooling (Waavi/translation), emphasizing database-driven loading and caching for better localization. William also runs a micro-private equity fund, mentors startups at Tetuan Valley, and invests as an angel in early-stage ventures, blending operator experience with deal-making. He pairs telecoms engineering training with a track record of delivering high-throughput personalization platforms (20,000 experiences/minute) and pragmatic product strategies that drive adoption across continents.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Lycée Français de Madrid
Spanish, English, French, Catalan
Github Skills (11)
database-migrations10
php10
database-migration10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
database-design9
caching9
phpunit8
cli7
command-line7
command-line-interface7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Waavi/translation
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
Better translation management for Laravel
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 54 commits, 48 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the backend of the Laravel translation management system. The commits show significant work on repository classes, database migrations, and service provider configurations. The changes include implementing database-driven translation loading, caching strategies, and commands for loading language files. Furthermore, the user refactored models, migrations, and tests, improving the project's overall structure and maintainability.
laravel
Waavi/Sanitizer
Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
Data sanitizer and form request input sanitation for Laravel 5.
Contributions:10 releases, 9 commits, 27 PRs in 10 months
laravel
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