Bill Katsak
Founding Principal Technologist And CTO at Bnchmrk
New Britain Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolBill Katsak is a seasoned technology leader and systems engineer with 13+ years of experience building high-performance, production-grade software across startups, academia, and industry. As founding CTO/Principal Technologist, he has led architecture and engineering teams to deliver proprietary line-of-business systems, real-time API integrations, and a UNIX-style blockchain filesystem, while navigating regulatory and go-to-market challenges. His technical breadth spans Python, Go, Rust, kernel and OS-level work, distributed consensus, and datacenter energy and video-transcoding systems from his Rutgers Ph.D. research. Comfortable switching between hands-on development and strategic leadership, he frequently migrates legacy platforms to modern stacks and secures SBIR funding for research-driven products. Based in Pennsylvania, he is increasingly focused on applying his systems and distributed-systems expertise to AI-driven solutions.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science at Luzerne County Community CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Commonwealth University-BloomsburgMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Rutgers University
English, Russian
Github Skills (51)
ledger9
hyperledger9
hash8
dlt8
distributed-ledger8
digest7
python-bindings7
hash-algorithm6
hashing-algorithm6
sdk6
keccak6
netbsd5
xv65
hash-functions5
cryptography5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Rutgers-PANIC-Lab/Src-Infrastructure
May 2019 - Mar 2023
Repo to hold stuff used for deploying infrastructure.
Contributions:122 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
deployingdevopsansibleinfrastructureinfrastructure-management
taekion-org/sawtooth-client-sdk-go
Jul 2019 - Aug 2022
Sawtooth Client SDK for Go
Contributions:52 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 3 years
golangclient-sdksawtoothsdk
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