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I'm William Beau Smith, a Principal Development Engineer with eight years of experience building distributed fault-tolerant infrastructure and high-performance APIs using Python, TypeScript, and Ruby on Rails, with cloud-native technologies on AWS. I've worked across industries including cloud services, hedge funds, insurance, retail, and healthcare. I enjoy mentoring engineers and leading cross-team technical initiatives with a strong focus on reliability, security, and performance. I'm passionate about observability, scalable architecture, and developer productivity, and I thrive in collaborative environments that combine product, SRE, and engineering teams to ship robust, measurable systems.…I'm William Beau Smith, a Principal Development Engineer with eight years of experience building distributed fault-tolerant infrastructure and high-performance APIs using Python, TypeScript, and Ruby on Rails, with cloud-native technologies on AWS. I've worked across industries including cloud services, hedge funds, insurance, retail, and healthcare. I enjoy mentoring engineers and leading cross-team technical initiatives with a strong focus on reliability, security, and performance. I'm passionate about observability, scalable architecture, and developer productivity, and I thrive in collaborative environments that combine product, SRE, and engineering teams to ship robust, measurable systems.

William Beau Smith

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I'm William Beau Smith, a Principal Development Engineer with eight years of experience building distributed fault-tolerant infrastructure and high-performance APIs using Python, TypeScript, and Ruby on Rails, with cloud-native technologies on AWS. I've worked across industries including cloud services, hedge funds, insurance, retail, and healthcare. I enjoy mentoring engineers and leading cross-team technical initiatives with a strong focus on reliability, security, and performance. I'm passionate about observability, scalable architecture, and developer productivity, and I thrive in collaborative environments that combine product, SRE, and engineering teams to ship robust, measurable systems.…I'm William Beau Smith, a Principal Development Engineer with eight years of experience building distributed fault-tolerant infrastructure and high-performance APIs using Python, TypeScript, and Ruby on Rails, with cloud-native technologies on AWS. I've worked across industries including cloud services, hedge funds, insurance, retail, and healthcare. I enjoy mentoring engineers and leading cross-team technical initiatives with a strong focus on reliability, security, and performance. I'm passionate about observability, scalable architecture, and developer productivity, and I thrive in collaborative environments that combine product, SRE, and engineering teams to ship robust, measurable systems.

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I’m William Beau Smith, a Principal Development Engineer with eight years of experience building distributed fault-tolerant infrastructure and high-performance APIs using Python, TypeScript, and Ruby on Rails, with cloud-native technologies on AWS. I’ve worked across industries including cloud services, hedge funds, insurance, retail, and healthcare. I enjoy mentoring engineers and leading cross-team technical initiatives with a strong focus on reliability, security, and performance.

I’m passionate about observability, scalable architecture, and developer productivity, and I thrive in collaborative environments that combine product, SRE, and engineering teams to ship robust, measurable systems.

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Work Experience

Principal Development Engineer (L5) at Amazon

April 1, 2024 - November 18, 2025

Architected and maintained a high-throughput API gateway using Node.js, optimizing latency, observability, and fault tolerance across a federated architecture. Led a cross-team migration of legacy monolith components to a distributed microservices system, reducing deployment time by 30% and improving on-call MTTR. Consulted on a new product line enabling customers to sell existing inventory online through the platform using React, Angular, Node, Redux, and AWS. Engineered performance-critical modules in Python to optimize core request processing paths and integrated them with existing Express services to improve throughput by 20%. Built scalable telemetry pipelines using OpenTelemetry and Prometheus, achieving 2-second alert latency and end-to-end traceability across microservices. Mentored 6+ engineers on idiomatic TypeScript, memory safety, concurrency, and maintainability. Developed reusable observability middleware in Node adopted by 15+ microservices. Drove architectural discussio

Full Stack Engineer at Remote Tech

April 1, 2024 - April 1, 2024

Implemented high-performance data ingestion services in Node processing billions of metrics per day with 99.99% uptime. Built internal platform SDKs exposing GraphQL and REST APIs for customer dashboards and alert rules, improving feature velocity by 40%. Used .NET 6 Core, Docker, Azure App Service, and Kubernetes to create a health service API; constructed build and release pipelines using Azure DevOps to ensure consistent multi-environment deployments. Developed dynamic configuration loader in Python enabling zero-downtime reloads for observability agents deployed to 100k+ nodes. Improved latency of distributed log processing by over 50% through redesigned worker fan-out pattern using Kafka and gRPC.

Full Stack Developer at Omega Hospital

April 1, 2023 - April 1, 2023

Developed a scalable data warehouse to serve consumer, mobile, and admin interfaces with healthcare data using .NET 7, Azure DevOps, and AWS. Ingested FHIR and EDI-X12 data from multiple insurance providers into DynamoDB using AWS Fargate/ECS. Implemented health service APIs with .NET 6, Docker containers, Azure App Service, and Kubernetes, and constructed multi-environment deployment pipelines with Azure DevOps. Implemented invoicing and payment automation for an international travel company using Node.js, TypeScript, MongoDB, and Google Sheets integration. Modeled a dashboard for corporate action events for a hedge fund using C#, a web API, and React; presented usage patterns to developers.

Node Developer at Collectors Universe

February 1, 2022 - February 1, 2022

Developed backend services using Spring Boot and Node capabilities with secure, scalable features. Built modern SPAs using React.js, Redux, TypeScript and Material-UI, improving interactivity and performance across devices. Automated routine deployment and maintenance tasks with Linux shell scripts; containerized applications using Docker; maintained CI/CD pipelines with Bamboo. Bundled and transpiled modern JavaScript with Webpack and Babel for cross-browser performance. Developed and executed unit and integration tests using JUnit 5 and Mockito to validate backend logic and service integrations.

Junior Developer at NTT Data

January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2020

Developed and maintained robust backend services using Node, Spring Boot and Spring MVC for scalable enterprise applications. Designed RESTful APIs and integrated with downstream systems via secure service interfaces. Built business logic layers using Spring Data JPA, Hibernate and Node Streams for data processing and persistence. Utilized Oracle DB and SQL Server for data modelling, querying, and optimization of high-volume transactional data.

Intern at Rebellyous Foods

January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2018

Collaborated with senior engineers to design and implement features for a web-based project management platform using React and Node.js; debugged and optimized frontend components, improving overall page performance by 20%.