Willis Plummer
Software Engineer at Patreon
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWillis Plummer is a seasoned full-stack software engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building pragmatic, cost-conscious systems and shipping user-facing products. He specializes in TypeScript-driven stacks (Next.js, Express, Postgres) but brings a polyglot background including Haskell, Elm, Ruby, Swift, and Java that helps him untangle legacy systems and re-platform them reliably. Willis has led migrations that simplified microservice sprawl into maintainable monoliths, re‑architected infra with Terraform and ECS, and implemented composable algorithms for real‑time generative music. He pairs technical craftsmanship with product sensibility—negotiating scope, improving developer ergonomics, and cutting hosting and licensing costs—while also contributing to cultural projects like a multimedia archive for Meredith Monk. Colleagues know him for making complex designs debuggable and for a wry appreciation of the “spirit that lives in the computer.”
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Comparative Literature Spanish, B.A. Comparative Literature Spanish at New York University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
447reputation
28kreached
19answers
3questions
Github Skills (200)
ergonomics10
composition10
testing10
swiftui10
draft-js10
nodejs10
mongodb10
editors10
contenteditable10
textarea10
modularity10
testability10
password-vault10
unidirectional-data-flow10
uikit10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
hiclark/clark-styles
Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
Styles shared across Clark's frontend applications
Contributions:12 PRs, 53 pushes, 13 branches in 9 months
reacttoolkitstylesfrontendshared-styles
willisplummer/elm-personal-website
Aug 2016 - Jan 2023
My personal website in Elm
Contributions:162 commits, 8 PRs, 200 pushes in 6 years 6 months
elm
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