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*** Topic is 'Senior Software Engineer · 20+ yrs · Mobile/Web/Server · Portland, OR · "ask me about the motorcycle"'
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[09:01] <Recruiter1> hey @BillD, saw your profile — got a sec?
[09:01] <BillD> yep, what's up
[09:02] <Recruiter1> can you give me the tl;dr on your background?
[09:02] <BillD> sure — 20+ yrs, started in .NET doing CRM stuff for a dairy company in Green Bay WI (2003-2004)
[09:02] <BillD> then maintained an online classroom platform at University of Phoenix, 400k students (2007-2010)
[09:03] <BillD> took a break 2010-2011, rode a motorcycle 20,000mi solo from AZ to Argentina
[09:03] <Recruiter1> wait what
[09:03] <BillD> yeah, wrote a book about it too — "Anxiety Across the Americas"
* Recruiter1 is impressed
[09:04] <Recruiter1> ok continuing... what after that
[09:04] <BillD> 2016-2017 DAT Solutions — built "Load Board" Android app + Node.js REST APIs from scratch
[09:05] <BillD> 2017-2019 Cvent — led the React Native pilot, became tech lead in 6 months, built a Storybook component lib, hosted meetups
[09:05] <BillD> 2019-2024 New Relic — led migration of 50+ screens, Java/XML -> Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, mobile observability platform
[09:06] <BillD> 2024-present eBay — item discovery & offer mgmt, sales analytics, coupon refactor, integrating Copilot/Cline/Claude Code into the team workflow
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[09:07] <HRBot> !skills BillD
[09:07] <HRBot> BillD's skills: Kotlin, Java, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Flows, Dagger, Retrofit, MVVM, React, React Native, JavaScript, Node.js, GraphQL, C#, Postgres, SQLite, MySQL, NoSQL, Docker, AWS, git, CI, GitHub Copilot, Cline, Claude Code
[09:08] <eBay_Mike> can confirm, works with him now. AI tooling integration has been clutch
[09:08] <Recruiter1> education?
[09:09] <BillD> B.S. Computer Science + B.S. Philosophy, Saint Norbert College, 2000-2004
[09:09] <BillD> the philosophy degree comes up more than you'd think, mostly during incident reviews
[09:10] <Recruiter1> /whois BillD
*** BillD is dwyer.bill@gmail.com * Bill Dwyer
*** BillD is a Senior Software Engineer (20+ yrs)
*** BillD is on #hireme #android #reactnative #motorcycles
*** BillD using irc.dwyer.dev Portland, OR
*** BillD idle 0 seconds, signed on 2003-09-01
*** BillD :Replied to your DM within the hour. Sources say this is "also unusual."
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[09:11] <Jules> +v for "still checking the diff" energy
[09:11] <Recruiter1> contact info?
[09:12] <BillD> dwyer.bill@gmail.com / 708-462-2455 / github.com/AtlasRider
[09:12] <Recruiter1> great, will follow up. brb
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[09:13] <BillD> cool, I'll be here. shipping something.
* BillD is shipping something