# William Farley

> Senior Software Engineer for Berry Street

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/williamfarley

I gave coding a try when I was a freshman in college. I haven’t stopped since then. I’m dreaming of the day where I can call myself an artist and engineer. Currently learning how to lead a team, develop and recruit talent, and operator at scale.

“They can because they think they can”

“Baseball is fun”

“Historia non facit saltum”

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Berry Street
Jan 2025 – Present

### SDE 2 @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
Key Leadership Highlights
	•	Led a team of 12 engineers (at peak) on a year-long initiative to automate AWS region builds, reducing manual operational complexity and enabling scalable service expansion.
	•	Defined the architectural vision and roadmap for region automation tooling; authored 200+ pages of technical strategy and design documentation to align senior engineers and leadership.
	•	Designed and delivered a large-scale workflow orchestration system (450+ task DAG) running on ECS and deployed via a fully automated CDK-based pipeline.
	•	Owned planning, execution management, and critical path delivery across multiple workstreams, balancing speed with long-term architectural durability.
	•	Drove roadmap expansion to extend tooling coverage across all build types within the service, aligning engineering investment with long-term platform goals.

Specialized Technical Leadership
	•	Led architecture and delivery for FSx service builds in air-gapped regions, solving for high-security, disconnected deployment constraints.
	•	Re-architected portions of the service to operate in air-gapped environments, overcoming unique artifact distribution, dependency management, and compliance challenges.
	•	Led design reviews, mentored junior engineers, and raised the bar on written technical communication in Amazon’s PR/6-pager culture.

Core Strengths
	•	Distributed systems architecture at scale
	•	Technical strategy & long-term platform design
	•	Engineering team leadership & mentorship
	•	Execution management in high-ambiguity environments
	•	Executive-level technical writing and stakeholder alignment

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Led creation of VPC Endpoint Service for FSx. Set up network infrastructure like load balancers, VPCs, subnets, and route tables to support private endpoints. Built automated tests with CloudWatch Synthetics canaries.

Automated updates to and improved deployment speed on configuration files.

### Mentor @ Techstars
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Technical mentor for TechStars Boston!

### Tech Lead @ Fisherman
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Lead mobile app team. Manage 4 interns. Teach best development practices.

### Software Engineer @ Transeo
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Develop React frontend

### Head Teaching Assistant @ Boston College
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020
TA in Computer Science and Information Systems. Teaching a weekly lecture section, grading, and hosting office hours for CS1. Grading and hosting office hours for a class on mobile app development using Swift.

### Technical Associate - Shea Center Startup Accelerator @ Boston College
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Assisting 11 portfolio companies with a variety of technical backgrounds · Consulting on all software and product issues · Leading development of Associate Program

### Research Lead on AI in the Classroom @ Boston College
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Software developer building skills for Alexa for classroom usage at Boston College.

### Software Engineer @ Fisherman
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Boston, MA
Developing a do-it-for-you web generator product in a full stack role. Engineering Django REST API backend with comprehensive testing. Building and testing React components.

### Campus Representative @ Apple
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Boston, Massachusetts
Manager of Apple initiatives at Boston College, including iPads for Academic Success. Responsible for all product sales and marketing.

### Desktop Support Intern @ TripAdvisor
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area
Summer intern working in IT, specializing in scripting. Responsibilities include hardware repair and computer imaging. Participated in the intern hackathon, building the back end server and API for a web app. Ended the summer by engineering a fully automated kiosk for the help desk linked to our Jira ticketing system.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Majors in Computer Science and Management
Boston College

### High School Diploma
Noble and Greenough School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/williamrfarley
- Portfolio: https://wrfarley.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-28