William Wallace
Solutions Architect
I turn complex operations into systems that scale.
About
The Architect Approach
Six years turning operational chaos into working systems, first at the CDC's COVID-19 response and now across statewide programs at Washington State Parks. These days I build the software end to end too, from the render pipeline to the infrastructure under it. Classic INTJ: I don't just solve the problem, I re-engineer the system behind it.
Certifications & Awards
- Google Data Analytics Certification
- Generative AI Leader (Google)
- Human Research Certification (CITI Program)
- FEMA ICS & NIMS Certified (IS-100, 200, 700, 800)
- Employee Excellence Award (2024) - WA State Parks
- MVP Award (2021) - Loyal Source
Career
Experience
Management Analyst 5
Washington State Parks
- ❖Lead the modernization of the Boating Program's mission-critical information systems.
- ❖Direct strategic analysis and project management for five statewide programs.
- ❖Advise division leadership with data-driven analysis that informs legislative policy decisions.
Lead Public Health Advisor
Loyal Source Government Services (CDC)
- ❖Led a team at the CDC Seattle Quarantine Station, responsible for service quality, data integrity, and a safe working environment.
- ❖Managed security assessments for a 30+ person team and analyzed operational data for the COVID-19 response.
- ❖Built continuing-education and new-hire training programs on critical public health issues.
- ❖Oversaw inventory management, reporting, and research initiatives to support station operations.
Public Health Analyst
Caduceus Healthcare (CDC)
- ❖Partnered with international health officials on cross-border emergency response planning to monitor pathogen importations.
- ❖Led team members through the early months of the COVID-19 response, safeguarding data integrity and service quality.
- ❖Served as CDC Call Center Manager, using call data to improve performance and mentoring new employees.
- ❖Coordinated schedules and shift coverage to maintain continuous operations.
Portfolio
Selected Work
A look at what I've built and maintain.
Open Source · v0.8.2
Kelvin
A local-AI photo editor for macOS, open source and in public pre-alpha — designed and built solo, from first commit to public release. A small vision model reads the photograph on-device, then a deterministic engine turns what it saw into three or four fully-formed candidate edits you choose between. No cloud, no account, nothing uploaded.
- Ships from usekelvin.app as a signed, notarized macOS build, open source under AGPL-3.0, with 883 tests and CI on every pull request
- Designed the pipeline so cost lands where it belongs: decode once per file, keep every interactive operation on a proxy, and go full-resolution only on export, so a 45-megapixel RAW stays responsive
- Made candidate generation nearly free by rendering each edit as a parameter swap against a texture already on the GPU
- Cut brush-stroke rendering from 17.3 ms to 0.8 ms per frame
- Kept the model's job categorical. It judges the scene, it does not invent numbers, so every edit comes from a deterministic, unit-tested engine that can be benchmarked
- Built masking and retouching that hold up on faces: metering that never classifies skin tone, corrections capped so a face stays close to how it was shot, and healing that repairs pixels rather than repainting them
1.5 GB, model included · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon
Under the Hood
Engineering, End to End
Most of what I build never shows up on a page: the auth, the infrastructure, the automation. Here's the stack behind the sites I design, ship, and maintain myself.
Frontend
What visitors see and feel
Backend & Infra
Serverless runtime and data
Security & Auth
Session integrity and hardening
SEO, Ads & Performance
Discoverability, ad tooling, speed
Editorial Platform
The tooling behind a publication I run
Native & On-Device AI
Outside the web stack entirely
Workflow
How I build
Contact
Let's Collaborate
I'm open to roles where the work is designing and building systems that have to hold up: architecture, full-stack engineering, and technical strategy. If you're working on something hard, I'd love to hear about it.