William F. Hayslett Jr.

Partnered with Product, Design, and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous business problems into scalable technical solutions; led architecture and delivery from product definition through production. Architected and led delivery of a modern Business Rules Management System (BRMS), replacing a legacy platform with a scalable in-house solution that reduced business rules by ~85% while improving maintainability, governance, and operational efficiency. Led and developed 30+ engineers and engineering leaders across multiple backend, platform, and full-stack teams. Directed modernization of legacy commercial off-the-shelf systems to open-source, microservice-based architectures, driving major gains in performance, cost efficiency, and developer velocity. Established engineering standards and operating rhythms (roadmap planning, delivery accountability, metrics, retrospectives, and post-incident reviews) to drive continuous improvement in reliability and delivery. Drove cross-function

Architected and implemented Canary & Blue-Green deployment strategies to reduce risk, increase service resilience, and eliminate service downtime. Engineered a declarative framework to manage both infrastructure and code delivery requirements, accelerating release velocity and cutting deployment cycles by ~75%. Developed and led enhancements to automated testing in CI/CD pipelines, integrating unit, integration, and security testing to reduce manual QA efforts by >80%. Partnered across engineering, DevOps, and product organizations to establish software engineering and security best practices that improved delivery consistency and platform quality.

Led API integrations to connect PowerReviews software with client websites, shopping carts, and backend systems. Managed end-to-end software implementations from technical discovery and requirements gathering through deployment, customization, testing, and customer enablement. Conducted data mapping, testing, and training to ensure accurate review collection, platform optimization, and client adoption.