# William Schutte > One of the last 7 engineers not at an AI B2B Sass company (please stop trying to recruit me). | Founding Engineer at Roots | Early Stage SE | Scuba and Forklift Certified Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/williamschutte Founding Engineer with 5+ years building data-intensive applications in React & TypeScript. Equal parts technical engineer and interface obsessive; happiest when a complex system feels effortless to use. Startup generalist, full stack dev, infrastructure, architecture, and dev processes. Thrives in collaborative, fast-moving teams. ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer @ Roots Homes Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States • Designed full application architecture and determined tech stack (NextJS, NestJS, Node, Prisma, Postgres) including API layer, database schema, 12+ external integrations, and automated background services. • Built and optimized Digital Ocean infrastructure with elastic scaling, containerization, and microservices—systematically reducing costs while maintaining uptime and performance. • Drove adoption of AI-assisted development tooling across the team while integrating LLM-powered features into the product, accelerating both development velocity and product capabilities. • Established end-to-end developer workflows: GitHub Actions CI/CD, Linear-based task and issue tracking, and structured code review processes. • Architected a data pipeline to automatically ingest, normalize, and reconcile tens of thousands of real estate listings across 10 MLS providers spanning 6 states. • Hired and developed first engineer from intern level, running regular 1:1s and mentoring on systems thinking, customer-first development, and production-grade engineering practices. • Own incident response and triage for all critical, user-reported, and unexpected production issues. ### Frontend Engineer @ Luminary Cloud Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Mateo, California, United States • Delivered comprehensive front-end support across the company's largest feature team. Demonstrated proficiency in leveraging React, TypeScript, Go, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and gRPC within the domain of high-performance computing. • Shipped production features within the first week, and went on to contribute significant meshing UI functionality leading up to the company’s official launch. ### Tech Lead - Frontend Architecture @ cove.tool Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States • Oversaw the frontend architectural vision and strategy to ensure scalable and maintainable codebases across our applications while mentoring the frontend team to establish clear coding standards and methodologies. • Conducted regular code reviews, ensuring adherence to design patterns and code quality standards. • Collaborated with software managers, UX/UI designer, and backend developers to ensure seamless integration and a consistent user experience across new features and applications. • Led technical interviews to assess candidates' programming skills and problem-solving abilities. ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ cove.tool Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States • Successfully managed a small team of developers, mentoring interns in React and Django fundamentals, providing guidance and support to achieve project milestones. • Led frontend development of an entirely new application from scratch. Planned user workflow, system architecture, milestones, endpoints, and integrated the work of the backend engineers. Provided the most organized and fastest turnaround of a new feature for covetool. • Generated detailed design documents outlining the integration of new technologies into existing systems and the creation of new features. • Accelerated launch of Load Modeling v2 within the first 3 months of work, resulting in $1M first quarter sales and 2023 AHR Expo Innovation Award in Software. ### Tutor, Streaming Host @ Practicum Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 • Hosted international coding events for software engineering, UI/UX, and data science students across the world, judging participants’ MVPs and streaming results and award events • Led live-coding sessions, demonstrating coding principles and techniques, providing learning support and guidance for students working in software engineering program • Primary tutor and point of contact for all students entering the program ### Javascript Developer, Associate Researcher @ Conifer Point Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote • Built, maintained, and updated web-based computational chemistry software on a React and Django stack with a small, agile team of engineers • Refactored legacy JQuery/JS components into modern React functional components with Material UI elements • Implemented 3rd party API’s and libraries like 3Dmol.js, RDKit, ESLint, and Next.js to display complex 3D graphics and provide users with advanced chemical modeling tools • Provided expertise to several pharmaceutical clients, researching and analyzing candidate drug interactions with key proteins. Reported findings to clients to guide drug development. ### Web Developer @ OFarrell Group Web Development Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States Worked remotely with company owner to develop, update, and manage responsive WordPress and HTML/CSS/JS/PHP websites for local and national clients. ### Technical Services Engineer II @ Amentum Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Aiken, SC Technical services consulting for DOE nuclear facilities as well as international nuclear energy and nuclear waste disposal facilities. ### Academic Advisor and Private Tutor @ Peak Academic Coaching Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Duluth, GA Provide one-on-one, personalized tutoring and educational planning for students ranging from 6th grade through college with a focus in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics. ### Undergraduate Capstone @ The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Athens, GA Senior design project with the University of Georgia and Janssen Pharmaceutical: research and design of a new large scale production process for a biomaterial precursor. ### Peer Learning Assistant @ University of Georgia Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Athens, Ga Assisted Dr. Fahrman in Engineering Statics (ENGR 2120), allowed to lead multiple lectures on various topics throughout the semester, held study sessions and assisted engineering students throughout semester. ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Georgia College of Engineering Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Athens, GA Worked under Dr. X.Q. Wang studying molecular dynamics. Research centered on multilayer graphene-phosphorene systems in the field of materials sciences and simulational chemistry. ## Education ### Biochemical Engineering in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Georgia College of Engineering ### Software Engineering Practicum USA ### Chemistry Georgia Gwinnett College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/william-schutte - Website: https://www.wschutte.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/williamschutte JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/williamschutte/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05