William Wilsman
Aerospace Software Engineer III at Firefly Aerospace
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Wilsman is an Aerospace Software Engineer III with 12 years of experience building front-end and SDK tooling, now applying his web development and testing expertise to aerospace software at Firefly Aerospace in Austin. He progressed from web and UI roles into senior engineering positions at companies like Percy and Frontside, bringing strong hands-on skills in JavaScript, design-driven front-end development, and developer-facing tooling. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the DropKick JS plugin to support dynamic population and better linting, showing attention to accessibility and maintainability. William pairs a designer’s sensibility with systems-level rigor—comfortable shipping user-facing features and architecting robust, testable integrations. Colleagues benefit from his dual focus on polish and reliability, a trait that now influences safety-conscious aerospace projects.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Digital Design, Certificate, Digital Design at Lee County High Tech Center North
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Github Skills (6)
javascript10
jquery9
selectbox9
select-input9
css7
html7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Robdel12/DropKick
Aug 2013 - Apr 2016
A JavaScript plugin for creating beautiful, accessible, and painless custom dropdowns.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:62 commits, 8 pushes, 31 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:William's commits primarily focus on updating the `dropkick` JavaScript plugin. The contributions include adding features such as triggering "change" events and a "reload" method to rebuild the dropdown, allowing for dynamic population. Further contributions include JSHint and JSLint improvements, and fixes and improvements to the code, making the plugin more robust and user-friendly.
dropdownsaccessiblejavascriptdropkickjavascript-plugin
wwilsman/.emacs.d
Apr 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:116 commits, 88 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 9 months
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