Bill Havanki
Principal Software Engineer at Segment
Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolBill Havanki is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building middleware, cloud-native services, and developer platforms, currently leading internal deployment tooling at Segment. He brings deep distributed-systems chops from roles at Cloudera—where he helped cloud-enable core data platform deployments and contributed to Apache Accumulo and ZooKeeper—to earlier systems and analytics work in defense and research. Bill excels at architecture, sharding and reliability improvements for high-throughput pipelines, and he pairs that backend expertise with a designer’s eye for polished, usable web UIs (and an admitted fondness for fonts). A pragmatic technical lead and mentor, he routinely combines load testing, fault-injection, and automation to unlock new capacity and revenue opportunities. He stays current by continuously exploring new tools and processes and enjoys sharing insights through presentations and hands-on team coaching.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Engineering, MS, Computer Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityBS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bhavanki/grounds
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
An extensible MUSH / MUD server written in Java.
Contributions:6 releases, 556 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 1 month
mud-servergamesshmudmux
bhavanki/doppio
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:6 releases, 99 commits, 69 pushes in 6 months
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