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Will Herrmann Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Exceptional engineer who began learning software development best practices in 2013. Have been putting concepts to practice by designing, writing, maintaining, and documenting systems professionally since 2017. Consistently recognized as a top developer and technical leader among peers. Highly experienced with delivering efficient, effective, and cohesive systems across many industries and wide-ranging projects. Very accustomed to team-driven development in an Agile environment, but plenty of experience working solo in self-driven roles, especially as it comes to learning and teaching new technologies. Happiest when working on the hard problems and making large-scale impacts.

e-mail: me@will-i-am.dev
phone number: (810) 627-4142
mailing address: 578 Division Street, Coopersville, MI 49404

Career

Senior Full-Stack Developer & Product Owner

Sep 2019 - Current

FreedomDev Sensible Software - Zeeland, MI

Custom Builds | Migrations | Integrations | Consulting

Primary responsibilities involve designing, building, and testing a wide variety of applications and systems, acting as a primary reviewer on pull requests, onboarding / training new and existing team members, and providing leadership-level support across the organization with critical-thinking skills. Leadership responsibilities include making high-level decisions related to the technical stack, process improvements at every layer of the organization, and involved in quarterly objective planning and prioritization. Product owner of technical documentation, software development standards and best practices, and the .NET / Angular template and library software repositories. This also includes managing changelog documentation and versioning of internal NPM packages and NuGet libraries.

Success highlights:
  • Modernized and architected the current technical stack
  • Primary driver of automated testing into the SDLC
  • Implemented code style and linting rules across all development to standardize source code automatically
  • Advocated for and architected the internal NuGet libraries and NPM packages
Primary stack: Azure | Angular | .NET (Core) | Dapper | SQL Server
  • And many other technologies as necessary for niche projects

Full-Stack Developer

Apr 2017 - Sep 2019

Radley Corporation - Grand Rapids, MI

Enterprise Product and Customizations

Core responsibilties were writing WCF service code which integrated with EF to provide an API for other client-focused developers, as well as enhancing a WPF desktop application which was the core management UI for the ERP-esque product Radley provided to customers. Provided technical expertise across the organization and helped developers with complex algorithms. Began the development process of migrating the WPF desktop client into an Angular application.

Stack: On-premise hosting | TFS | Angular, WPF | .NET Framework | WCF | EF | Oracle, SQL Server

Education

Bachelor of Science

Aug 2013 - Apr 2017

Grand Valley State University - Grand Rapids, MI

  • Double majored in Mathematics and Computer Science
  • 3.696 GPA
  • 138 Credit Hours