Billy Ross
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolBilly Ross is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with 14+ years of delivering scalable, user-centered applications across media, telecom, government, and education. He has led greenfield development of Whakaata Māori’s video-on-demand platform and news site, architected Go and NodeJS services for streaming, and built Next.js/Go workflows that cut manual processing time by over 80%. He’s proficient in cloud and DevOps, provisioning AWS infrastructure with Terraform, managing CI/CD, and integrating legacy CMS and Brightcove video APIs. Earlier in his career, he drove front-end excellence and platform growth at Vodafone NZ, Sky NZ, TVNZ, and Air New Zealand, including building self-service dashboards, a unified React component library, WCAG-compliant interfaces, and scalable back-ends. Based in Calgary, Canada, he combines hands-on coding with architectural ownership and mentorship to scale platforms and modernize legacy systems. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Waikato and is driven by turning complex requirements into robust, accessible systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Hons), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (Hons), Computer Science at The University of Waikato
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (70)
icon-pack10
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react-js10
react-typescript10
nodejs10
mongodb10
javascript9
api9
cms9
node-js9
postgres9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TheKodingKlingon/thekodingklingon.github.io
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
:sparkles: Build a beautiful and simple website in literally minutes. Demo at http://deanattali.com/beautiful-jekyll
Contributions:29 pushes in 16 days
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TheKodingKlingon/Lomqa-
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
The default personal blogging theme for Ghost with more added glory!
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
ghostbloggingglory
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