William Woodward
Buffalo
Summary
Lead Software Engineer with 9+ years of hands-on experience in the software industry with knowledge of complete product lifecycle through requirements, analysis, data modeling, design, development, testing, documentation, and delivery of projects. A collaborative leader, with a lot to offer.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Software Engineer
Draftkings
04.2022 - Current
- Led a team of 7 software engineers in building, maintaining, and scaling an enterprise-level web application that handled thousands of requests per minute - Draftkings Marketplace.
- Currently leading a team of 4 software engineers in the Account Platform space focusing on delivering the best Responsible Gaming tools in the industry.
- Responsible for designing, planning, and presenting on technical plans for new features across multiple verticals within the organization.
- Leverage tools such as DataDog, Kibana, Locust, & AWS in our SDLC to ensure we're shipping robust, observable, and highly-scalable software.
- Worked collaboratively with product stakeholders to resolve technical roadblocks, refine requirements within product specs, and prioritize the team's roadmap.
- Planned, coordinated, and executed complex rollouts of cross-team feature work.
Lead Software Engineer
Liazon Corp
07.2015 - 04.2022
- Worked closely with product stakeholders to identify, design, and implement new features within our benefits exchange web application.
- Assist with, plan, and delegate work each sprint to ensure the team met its goals.
- Principal point of contact for junior engineers - mentoring, pair programming, goal setting, etc.
- Team was responsible for breaking down a monolith of ~100 projects into a suite of Azure- hosted microservices.
Education
B.S - Computer Science
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
Buffalo05.2015
Skills
- NET(C#)
- API Development
- Complex Data Modelling
- Microservices Architecture
- Continuous Integration and Deployment
- Software Architecture Design
- Cloud Computing Expertise
- Performance Optimization
- Project Planning
- Technical leadership
- Advanced Debugging
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer
Draftkings
04.2022 - Current
Lead Software Engineer
Liazon Corp
07.2015 - 04.2022
B.S - Computer Science
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
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