Will Coleman
Huntington,WV
Summary
Backend engineer with 4+ years building and operating scalable, high-throughput systems powering consumer-facing products used by millions. Experienced in designing reliable REST APIs and event-driven systems in C#/.NET and AWS, with a strong focus on performance, observability, and maintainability. Leverages AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor), including agentic workflows, to accelerate engineering productivity.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Engineer II
FOX Sports
Remote
06.2023 - 03.2026
- Built and operated high-throughput C#/.NET backend services and REST APIs powering the Fox Sports website and app, supporting 17M+ monthly users and handling 50M+ daily requests
- Led backend architecture for major event page redesigns, leading 5 engineers and coordinating delivery across middleware and client teams
- Architected event-driven microservices using AWS (Lambda, SNS, SQS) to support distributed workflows for managing media assets
- Re-architected core play-by-play data systems to improve data resolution, flexibility, and quality
- Reduced query latency from 3+ seconds to under 50ms and cut nightly ingestion run time from 15+ minutes to under 2 minutes
- Modernized legacy ingestion pipelines from .NET Framework to .NET Core, improving maintainability and accelerating delivery of new features
- Improved performance through caching strategies and backend optimizations
- Improved system reliability and observability using Datadog (metrics, tracing, monitoring)
- Owned CI/CD pipelines and production releases; participated in on-call to maintain system health
- Mentored engineers, contributed to code reviews, and collaborated cross-functionally on system design
Associate Software Engineer
FOX Sports
Remote
01.2022 - 06.2023
- Built a sports betting odds ingestion system powering betting features across FOX Sports digital products and live broadcasts
- Developed an automated push notification payload system generating event alerts for hundreds of thousands of users
- Built a sports headline ingestion service powering dynamic event content and push notifications, increasing click-through rate by ~15%
- Migrated legacy sports data systems to modern relational databases, reducing infrastructure costs by $20K+ per month and improving maintainability
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Marshall University
Huntington, WV12-2021
Skills
- Languages & Frameworks : C#, NET Core, Entity Framework Core, Blazor, SQL
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, Redis
- Architecture & Data: REST APIs, Event-Driven Systems, Domain-Driven Design, Relational Data Modeling, SQL Server
- Developer Tools: GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, Datadog, Azure DevOps
Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, 01/2024
Timeline
Software Engineer II
FOX Sports
06.2023 - 03.2026
Associate Software Engineer
FOX Sports
01.2022 - 06.2023
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Marshall University