kushtybuckrecords.com
Live multi-tenant music label platform with ~6 active artists. Rails API backend porting to Rust, dual React apps, Rust tenant-config microservice. Full infra on Linux VMs with NGINX/Passenger.
hi, I'm
William Simpson
Engineer, tinkerer, occasional musician. From complex engineering solutions to creative pursuits — a caring contributor whatever the weather. This page is a little street you can walk; everything worth knowing is on it.
Resume
Full history on LinkedIn, PDF right here.
Music
In 2015 I started Music Saves the World, a community music project working with young people to build resiliance and confidence through music.
More on my YouTube channel — meet my artistic side.
Projects
Things I’ve built.
swiftsignals.net
Live Python signal trading service performing continuous market analysis with Telegram API notifications. 5 paying customers generating real revenue.
A Video
Once upon a time Before I was a software engineer I worked in the UK as a community musician, serving young people from all walks of life. When I moved to NYC I continued that work before joining the flatiron coding bootcamp. Music Saves the World This playlist showcases various projects I was part of.
About
A little blurb.
I was a nerdy teenager hanging out with technical tinkerers, learning the lingo of phreaking and hobbyist computers while studying C/C++ on a home learning course. In 2004 I joined BT as an Advanced Network Engineering apprentice, and 11 years in fibre networking taught me how distributed systems really work — reliability, fault tolerance, operational excellence. That foundation shapes everything I build.
Then a detour: youth work and education, and a crossing of the Atlantic to New York. I reconnected with my nerdy teenage self, volunteered in the community, and did the Full-Stack bootcamp at the Flatiron School in Brooklyn DUMBO. I love software development — discovering and thinking about how all the complex pieces of the system fit together.
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From complex engineering solutions to creative pursuits, a caring contributor whatever the weather. 😊