Gallery 7 — Contemporary Practitioners
"Senior Software Engineer, at Work"
mixed media (Kotlin, coffee, motorcycle memoir)
2003–present
The Engineer (Bill Dwyer)
American, b. 1982 · Active 2003–present · Mixed media installation
This piece documents the practice of a full-stack software engineer over more than two decades, spanning mobile, web, and server media. The work is notable for its sustained productivity, a single eight-month interruption that produced an unrelated literary work, and an unusually rapid promotion to "Tech Lead" within one gallery season.
Provenance
2003–04Early period. .NET CRM systems, dairy industry, Green Bay, WI.
2007–10Maintained large-scale online classroom platform, University of Phoenix (400,000 students).
2010–11Departure piece: solo motorcycle journey, 20,000 mi, Arizona to Argentina. Companion text: "Anxiety Across the Americas."
2016–17DAT Solutions — built "Load Board" Android app and Node.js APIs from raw materials.
2017–19Cvent — React Native pilot; promoted to Tech Lead within 6 months; built Storybook component library.
2019–24New Relic — major work: migration of 50+ screens, Java/XML to Kotlin/Jetpack Compose.
2024–eBay — current work-in-progress. Item discovery & offer mgmt, sales analytics, coupons, AI-assisted methods.
Materials
KotlinJetpack ComposeCoroutinesDaggerRetrofitReactReact NativeNode.jsGraphQLC#PostgresDockerAWSGitHub CopilotClaude Code
Education credit: B.S. Computer Science & B.S. Philosophy, Saint Norbert College (2000–2004)
Inquiries: dwyer.bill@gmail.com · 708-462-2455 · Portland, OR