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William Davis

Senior Software Engineer
Williamsburg,VA

Summary

Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12+ years of experience building scalable systems at Apple and Airbnb. Skilled in real-time architecture, cross-platform development, and performance optimization. Known for delivering high-impact features and improving engineering efficiency across web and mobile platforms.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Apple inc
New York, NY
01.2019 - Current
  • Delivered the Apple Music web app using React, TypeScript, MusicKit, and Redux Toolkit, enabling seamless, scalable, and
    secure music access for 15M+ users monthly.
  • Developed cross-platform mobile features using React Native, Swift bridge modules, and GraphQL, boosting app adoption with dynamic, native-like, fast-loading interactions.
  • Embedded Dolby Atmos streaming via WebAssembly, HLS.js, and custom rendering pipelines, improving audio clarity with immersive, high-resolution, browser-native playback.
  • Enabled real-time playlist collaboration through WebSockets, GraphQL Subscriptions, and React Query, supporting 10K+ live editors in distributed, synchronized, and resilient environments.
  • Re-architected critical backend flows with Python, Golang, Apollo Federation, AWS Lambda, and schema stitching, achieving faster, fault-tolerant, and cost-efficient service delivery.
  • Piloted a blockchain-based licensing ledger using Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Rust, and private smart-contract protocols, enhancing audit compliance through tamper-proof, transparent, and decentralized workflows.

Full Stack Engineer

Airbnb
Virginia Beach, VA
07.2014 - 12.2018
  • Launched Business Travel Ready filters using GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, and React, driving ~18,000 additional
    corporate bookings through targeted, scalable, and robust filtering systems.
  • Developed Apple Watch companion app for hosts using Swift, React Native, Redux, and REST APIs, reducing response time
    by 30% with seamless, real-time, wearable integration.
  • Integrated live messaging with WebSockets, GraphQL Subscriptions, Redux, and TypeScript, improving delivery speeds and boosting global, high-volume, conversation completion rates.
  • Built high-throughput experience booking services using Node.js, Express, Redis Streams, and AWS ECS, supporting 2M+
    reservations with performant, fault-tolerant, low-latency architecture.
  • Overhauled accessibility infrastructure using ARIA, WCAG, React, and Sass, resolving 1,500+ issues with compliant, inclusive,
    and screen-reader-optimized design.
  • Set up a full frontend CI/CD pipeline from scratch using Jest, Cypress, Playwright, Webpack, and Jenkins, enabling faster,
    test-driven, and reliable deployment of React-based interfaces across 40+ teams.

Web Developer

Twilio
Virginia Beach, VA
10.2012 - 05.2014
  • Built and launched Developer Profiles using PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, Backbone.js, and Mustache.js, increasing user
    engagement across over 80,000 accounts by centralizing project visibility and contributor metadata.
  • Engineered real-time Usage API dashboards with Java, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, WebSockets, and JWT, reducing
    internal metrics latency by 40% and improving dashboard responsiveness.
  • Designed a localization and A/B testing framework supporting 18 languages using JavaScript, Node.js, i18n, Redis,
    Handlebars, NGINX, and Jenkins, leading to a measurable conversion lift in EMEA and APAC regions.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Virginia
04.2008 - 09.2012

Skills

React / React Native

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Timeline

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Apple inc
01.2019 - Current

Full Stack Engineer

Airbnb
07.2014 - 12.2018

Web Developer

Twilio
10.2012 - 05.2014

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Virginia
04.2008 - 09.2012

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