# David Williams > Staff Software Engineer at PayPal Location: Austin, Texas, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/davidwilliams Currently working as a Staff Software Engineer at PayPal on the new v6 JS SDK team. Have been programming since middle school, and have a strong passion for technology and learning. Primary experience lies in designing, implementing, and maintaining large scale full stack enterprise applications. Graduated in 2018 from Washington University in St. Louis after completing a 4 year combined BS/MS degree in Computer Science ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2024 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States Core team member working on the new v6 JS SDK Scaled SDK from 0->1 with one of PayPal's largest partners Led multiple internal AI R&D projects Significant contributions to PayPal and Venmo buttons ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Method Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Austin, Texas, United States Led full stack project to build new client facing Dashboard, working daily with our designer Owned and maintained suite of embeddable UI components allowing users to connect their liabilities Built out robust monitoring and alerting to ensure KPIs are met and system regressions are quickly identified/triaged Responded daily to customer issues and requests, providing direct support for the components of our application that I owned ### Senior Software Engineer @ Capital One Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 Led cross-team effort to build out new notification preference center, leveraging Typescript + Angular and Lambda (Python) + DynamoDB. Led complex 10x scalability research and testing of critical transaction processing batch jobs. Worked closely with business partners to improve user analytics and insights by setting up and integrating third party tool WalkMe Code owner of our UIs, reviewing and providing feedback to other engineers As senior engineer on the team, significant portion of time spent coordinating with business/design/product partners, and mentoring Junior engineers within and outside of the team ### Software Engineer @ Capital One Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | McLean, Virginia, United States Our team owned and managed a Java spring boot microservice based audit logging framework for a B2B virtual card payment application Worked extensively on migrating our application frontend from AngularJS to Angular/Typescript; migrated essential pages such as Login, Pay Capital One, Register User, Transactions, and Manage Bank Accounts. ### Associate Software Engineer @ Capital One Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | McLean, VA Worked on a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps focused team, providing support for other teams within Cybersecurity ### Software Engineering Intern @ Capital One Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | McLean, VA Worked in an agile team to develop an internal application that aimed to allow associates to easily build and distribute Apps within the company. ### Developer Intern @ Olenick & Associates Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Chicago Worked in an agile team to test a project management web app for a client by writing and executing test cases Created a proof of concept for test case automation using Java with Selenium Created a variety of excel macros that improved efficiency of data entry and formatting by 60% for a client ### Developer Intern @ Olenick & Associates Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Chicago Worked with another intern to design a variety of VBA macros to assist in optimizing workflow within the recruitment team. Created a resume formatting macro and a macro that highlighted specific search terms within resumes Tested a mobile app using DeviceAnywhere for a client ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Washington University in St. Louis Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Washington University in St. Louis Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/david-williams-4aa909104 --- Source: https://flows.cv/davidwilliams JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/davidwilliams/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22