# William D. > Senior Software Engineer at Torqata Data and Analytics, LLC Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/williamd Software engineer with proficiency in Go, Java, and Python, the Django and Django REST frameworks, and React and React Native libraries. Experienced with Docker and Kubernetes. Ansible and Salt for config management and Terraform for orchestration. Deployments on AWS and DigitalOcean. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Torqata Data and Analytics Jan 2021 – Present Led the auto aftermarket retail application suite, Torqata's foundational offering, after successfully leading the tire aftermarket's first blockchain pilot. Led the team in the release of two significant features within my first quarter as lead. The first gave sales a demo enclave in prod with real but obfuscated data. The second introduced variable forecast horizon periods to enable short-term (e.g., 3 month rather than 12) demand forecasting. Architected and implemented conversion of the point-of-sale (PoS) data pipeline from a code-heavy, BigQuery streaming API implementation to direct to BigQuery via PubSub streaming. This led to an improvement in bulk processing times and also reduced the pipeline's complexity and added schema validation to numerous PubSub topics. ### Lead Blockchain Engineer @ CHAMPtitles Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Cleveland, Ohio, United States Led architectural and development efforts for applications using Hyperledger Fabric. Designed and wrote smart contracts in Java and Go, caches/world-state replicas with MongoDB, and APIs in Java. Assisted cloud engineering team in troubleshooting production issues of applications in Kubernetes. ### Software Engineer @ CHAMPtitles Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area I wrote smart contracts (or chaincodes as they're known in Hyperledger Fabric) in Go and Java, clients to interface with the smart contracts in Java, and collaborated in building out multiple blockchain networks. As part of my responsibilities as lead engineer of the blockchain team, I coordinated and managed the efforts of our junior engineers. I assisted in planning upcoming sprints, translated that work to manageable tasks, delegated to individual team members, and monitored progress as each sprint progressed. With Fabric being as new as it is, many of the nuances of working with it's various features are lightly documented. We often found ourselves looking to source code for answers, experimenting extensively to learn how things worked, and often created our own documentation. I especially enjoyed working through the challenges of writing software that generates and modifies digital assets and runs on permissioned, distributed ledger systems. ### Teaching Assistant @ Case Western Reserve University Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area Worked as part of an instructional team of three, leading nearly 30 students through a rigorous full-stack web development boot camp. ### Software Engineer @ Vertical Knowledge Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area Wrote and maintained dozens of web spiders in Python that harvested data and indexed at scale on the clear and dark webs, deployed them with SaltStack and Ansible. The needs of our clients was such that information coverage was critical and so tools such as Redis and the Elastic Stack were employed to ensure comprehensive gathering. Celery was used to schedule collection and RabbitMQ to queue collection jobs. Coordinating ever-changing websites, caches, and databases required rigorous problem-solving and attention to detail. Combined with the dynamic needs of clients and a focus on the success of the business, the software I worked on was written in a way that was robust and reusable for platform applications. I was involved in the architectural planning of new applications and the development of a framework aimed at enabling developers to rapidly build and more readily maintain web spiders. ### Web Application Developer @ ARC Media Co. Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area I specialize in Python and Javascript. My preferred Python framework is Django and Javascript libraries are React and React Native. On the back-end, I work with Node (and the Express framework) and MongoDB and PostgreSQL. For deployments, I use Terraform for orchestration, Ansible for configuration, and generally host on DigitalOcean, AWS, Heroku, or Zeit Now. In addition to Python and Javascript, I am familiar with R, C, and Java. ### Histocompatibility Technologist @ Cleveland Clinic Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Cleveland, Ohio The role of a histocompatibility laboratory in organ transplant is to match recipients with donors and to help measure transplant success in recipients post-transplant. I performed STR (short tandem repeat) testing for the diagnosis of GvHD (graft-versus-host disease), CDC (complement-dependent cytotoxicity) and flow cytometry cross-matching, lymphocyte isolation from peripheral blood, spleen, and lymph nodes, HLA-typing with RSSOP (reverse sequence specific oligonucleotide probe) and SSP (sequence specific primers), and antibody testing. Position required 24-hour availability for multiple days each month to perform deceased-donor cell isolation, typing, and cross-matching. ### Medical Sciences Research Intern @ Washington State University Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Spokane, Washington The Li lab focuses on nuclear signaling in cell cycle progression and tumorigenesis. Specifically, we studied breast cancer using mammalian cell lines and molecular techniques to assay protein expression and interaction. I investigated the downstream impact and causative factors of ectopic expression of eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 2 (eEF1α2). ### Undergraduate Neuroscience Researcher @ University of Wisconsin-Madison Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Madison, Wisconsin Area In Dr. Mary Halloran's lab, I investigated the role of collapsin response mediator proteins (CRMPs) 2 and 4 in neuronal development, specifically axon outgrowth and guidance in Rohon-Beard neurons, and presented my work at the UW-Madison 2014 Undergraduate Symposium. I helped generate a line of zebrafish mutants expressing a dominant negative cofactor of the LIM-homeodomain (LIM-HD) transcription factors using Tol2kit. We did this in hopes of learning more about how these transcription factors impact the simultaneous projection of central and peripheral axons in Rohon-Beard neurons. I also worked to develop two stathmin (STMN) mutants using the genome editing tool, CRISPR-Cas. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biochemistry University of Wisconsin-Madison Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ### Gilmour Academy Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/wdavis2 --- Source: https://flows.cv/williamd JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/williamd/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22