About Me
Atlanta 🌆 based ex Silicon Valley software engineer and tech advisor
I'm a full-stack product engineer 👨🏿🔬 with 14 years of experience building software primarily on the web and mobile at scale for Silicon Valley Tech Giants (ex-LinkedIn), VC backed startups (ex-OpenSea), and Open Source Projects (cncf/cnf-testsuite).
Throughout my career, I've built software cross-platform:
- from pre-launch to userbases in the 100 millions
- Across 12+ unique technology stacks
- with venture-backed startup teams totaling $700+ MM raised from 2 person seed stage to 100s at Series D.
- also, with the 4000+ engineering team of LinkedIn pre(and post) MSFT acquisition where we shipped the version of Linkedin.com/jobs that you see today.
Most recently
I've been working with BCGX (https://www.bcg.com/x/) the tech build and design unit of BCG.
Imagine if you could hire a top team from FAANG+ / MANGA to overhaul your tech stack or improve your products from design to scalability. That's this team.
So far I've worked on everything from
- overhauling github actions pipelines for a multi-billion dollar energy company's mobile apps
- to leading a team building a weekly sentiment analysis pipeline for a graph database of the entire energy economy. (Which I later presented to an executive department of the federal government.)
- Also I've helped multi-billion dollar med-tech and healthcare companies build and scale critical care distributed systems
- and led an internal BCGX team to build one of the companies first multi agent Generative AI Applications to power content generation.
Prior to that
I was one of the first 50 employees at OpenSea where
- I built the foundations of social integrations with Twitter, Instagram, and Discord among other social networks for all NFT collections and accounts on the service.
- I also designed and deployed the pioneering social media metadata service backend that powers trust and safety analytics based on imported social profiles (i.e. a users follower count and other metrics) among other projects
Want to work together?
Reach out!: https://boujeehacker.com/contact
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Previous Work
- Helping to build a co-op business with Kubernetes ☸ (k8s) and crystal lang as a founding core maintainer of the open source https://github.com/cncf/cnf-testsuite/ a project currently with over 175 stars on github
- tl:dr? the suite assesses that k8s apps built in the 1.74 trillion telecom 📞📱☎️📡 industry can scale for the CNCF whose members include Google and Amazon among other cloud giants https://www.cncf.io/about/members/
- Which I gave a talk about at the 2021 Crystal 1.0 Conference
Before that
I dove deeply into web app dev and built code bases from scratch to 100,000s+ lines of code 💻 on
- Frontend (js typescript, <insert flavor of the month framework >, etc.)
- Ruby / Rails or Node.js backends,
- with PostgreSQL in general as the data store.
At startups before landing at Linkedin.
About the biz
I taught myself to code in high school and earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
I spent my free time in college building this consulting biz I still operate today on the side. So I bring value from ideation to launch and beyond since I've worn many hats and empathize with other roles in a business outside of software since I've
- Sold, previously six figures of revenue only working part-time as an independent contractor and now help close 7 to 8 figure deals with teams.
- Marketed built successful campaigns for 300+ person social events in San Francisco
- Written blog posts with 10,000+ views
- advise startups on product and engineering strategy.
Constantly learning
I'm continually learning new things also. A few projects:
- https://github.com/williscool/CalendarNotification
- I built and polished apps that received press coverage from 7+ internationally recognized news outlets and were downloaded over 80,000 times in around 70+ countries
- an auto prioritizing todo list in Trello and a summarizer. using AWS lambda, the serverless framework, and the Trello api
In my spare time
I enjoy mentoring (mentees have gone on to have successful tech careers and even raise Venture Capital).
Lets brainstorm!
Finally, whether or not we work together. I'm always a person you can reach out to and brainstorm on challenging technical problems.