William McCarthy

Senior Vice President of Engineering

Spinwheel

Jun 2025 - Current (1 year 3 months)

At Spinwheel, I lead a dynamic engineering team in the FinTech space specializing in AI technologies

Vice President of Engineering - AI/ML and Data Engineering

Octane

Jan 2024 - Jul 2025 (1 year 7 months)

In my role as Vice President of Engineering at Octane, I lead a team of engineers to drive AI and ML initiatives, creating innovative solutions for the company. By developing strategic roadmaps and collaborating closely with business stakeholders, we successfully implement AI/ML and data solutions that have a significant impact on various business functions. Our focus is on best of breed solutions in LLMs, Inference servers, managed AI systems (like Amazon AWS Bedrock and Amazon Q Developer), vector databases, and advanced embedding models.

Senior Director of Engineering

Octane

Feb 2022 - Jan 2024 (2 years)

Managing five software development teams in a fast growing industry leading FinTech firm. Optimizing teams for impact, delivery, and speed while maintaining positive organization health and work life balance for the Engineering Managers and Engineers in the division. Focused on creating software and solutions that balance scalability and investment throughout the software development lifecycle.

Director Of Technology and Engineering

Sensei

Jan 2021 - Feb 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Engineering - DevOps, Software, Data Architecture and Business Intelligence Teams

Goodway Group

Dec 2016 - Jan 2021 (4 years 2 months)

Responsible for Development Operations, Software Deployment and Automation, CI/CD Pipelines and the AWS platform in use by the organization. Responsible for software development initiatives for data warehousing, client reporting, and third-party API integration spanning projects in Python, Javascript, GO, node.js, and other development environments. Responsible for large-scale deployments in Redshift, AI/ML solutions, Kubernetes (including EKS and KOPS), ECS, Glue, EMR, and other AWS technologies. Responsible for BigQuery, Spanner, GDS, and other Google Compute Engine and Google Cloud solutions. Consistently produce innovate and creative technological and programmatic solutions on-time that exceed expectations of internal and external s

Engineering Lead

MINDBODY Inc

Dec 2015 - Dec 2016 (1 year 1 month)

Responsible for all corporate IT initiatives including the Global WAN, data centers, network infrastructure, telecommunication systems, and server platforms. Performed Global Wide Area infrastructure redesign and implemented both Cisco and Meraki network equipment inclusive of Palo Alto firewalls. Implemented best of breed video conferencing solutions including an enterprise-wide deployment of BlueJeans reducing cost and complexity while establishing superior conference capabilities. Performed extensive Microsoft AD schema changes and structural changes to match the organization's structure. Responsible for many simultaneous projects as both the project manager and technical lead. Worked closely with C-level executives to assure techni

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Chief Technology Officer and Director of Data Analytics

CSI Systems Inc

Jan 2011 - Dec 2015 (5 years)

Performed extensive network engineering and operational management for several large organizations with a focus on high availability, security, and efficiency. Engineered custom cloud based solutions for large applications on Amazon AWS, Rackspace Cloud, IBM Bluemix and Softlayer, Digital Ocean and Google Cloud Services. Managed over 2,000 instances at a time on AWS and Google Cloud for high performance globally redundant systems. Responsible for custom development in PHP, Java and node.js for a new SIP based VoIP service exceeding the demanded metrics regarding high volume and call quality. Performed extensive project management and engineering for a well known Microsoft Lync partner including resource allocation, Lync deployment and t

Director of Architecture and Engineering

Lenco Mobile Inc

Jan 2010 - Jan 2012 (2 years 1 month)

Responsible for the Network Operations Center and all IT infrastructure including more than 200 servers spread over 10 locations and three continents on private infrastructure and on the Amazon AWS cloud. Performed hands-on implementation of Cacti and Nagios for monitoring, alerting, and proactive analysis to assure 99.999% uptime of all hardware, applications and services for all data-centers and call center locations. Responsible for all Telecommunications systems (VoIP and Traditional TDM systems) including Cisco Call Manager, custom Asterisk PBX system, call center predictive dialers and call analytics software. Responsible for network infrastructure including Cisco switches and routers, F5 appliances, Juniper firewalls, and VPN syst

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Chief Technology Officer and Lead Architect

Big Vitality Corporation

Jan 2007 - Jan 2011 (4 years 1 month)

Responsible for all technical initiatives for the company. Successfully designed and implemented more than 30 web and e-commerce properties while improving automation, fulfillment and shipping. Managed the internal network operations center and all systems hosted at Rackspace and Amazon EC2 including the monitoring and outage notification systems to assure our 99.999% uptime SLA was exceeded. Responsible for all AWS resources including over 600 EC2 servers, 400 RDS instances, the adoption of AWS AI/ML tools, early Redshift adoption and other AWS offerings. Configured and supported more than 20 call centers on 4 continents using proprietary and open source call center software. Developed high performance switch clusters capable of over

Director of Infrastructure and Network Operations

TEKsystems

Jan 2004 - Jan 2007 (3 years 1 month)

Served two high profile clients, Tyco International and Bayview Financial Services, performing large scale global data-center and NOC migrations. BAYVIEW FINANCIAL: While at Bayview, held the title Director of Infrastructure and Network Operations for two years and managed all aspects of client NOCs 24x7x365 including support and critical response. Managed 35 personnel in the Unix, Citrix, Windows, Remote Access and Corporate Security Teams. Reported to the Chief Information Officer and was frequently involved in c-level planning and corporate direction initiatives. Championed the company's virtualization efforts which resulted in a Unix consolidation strategy utilizing IBM’s P-Series AIX servers and a Windows consolidation strategy uti

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Partner and Chief Information Officer

Intellectual Property Partners LLP

Jan 2001 - Jan 2004 (3 years 1 month)

Lead all technical initiatives in the development of innovative voice, video and web-enabled applications. Managed all merger, acquisition, and patent initiatives. Developed the technologies to enable data to travel over short wave radio and integrate with phone systems, Internet systems and private satellite systems. Managed a team of engineers, attorneys and paralegals in research, development and sales. Performed hands-on technical and development work.

Telecommunications Engineer

Microsoft

Jan 1999 - Jan 2001 (2 years 1 month)

Acted in a professional services division of Microsoft to solve critical client issues relating to Microsoft software, new deployments and custom integration tasks. Performed extensive integration between Windows Servers (NT & 2000), Unix and mainframe systems. Highly involved with internal Microsoft development committees including Active Directory, Terra Server, MS-SQL and the Hotmail acquisition. Created a large scale Internet Service Provider offering for one of the largest phone companies in the United States using exclusively Microsoft Windows server software and MS-SQL 7.0 on enterprise level Compaq hardware. Performed technical and management tasks relating to high availability and redundant database systems, authentication syst

IT Security and Systems Engineer

TEKsystems

Jan 1994 - Jan 1999 (5 years 1 month)

Responsible for highly sensitive data and system access for the largest electric utility in the United States. Performed network administration tasks for OS/2 Warp, Windows NT and various UNIX systems to support more than 100,000 corporate users. Implemented in-depth security models for AIX, HP-UX, Digital Alpha, VAX, Windows NT, and Linux systems. Implemented security architectures for ES/9000 mainframe using File 21, RACF, and ACF2. Managed migration of multiple DB2.2 and early Oracle databases to current Oracle and MS-SQL offerings while maintaining all data and limiting total downtime to less than an hour.

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