Bill Neff
Vice President Of Software Engineering at Magnite
Town of Orchard Park, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBill Neff is a seasoned engineering executive with over 20 years of software experience and a decade in senior leadership, currently serving as Vice President of Software Engineering at Magnite. He has led engineering, quality, and technical operations teams that launched products reaching tens of millions of daily users, progressing from hands-on software and front-end contributions to senior executive roles. A Cornell BS and UIUC MS in Computer Science underpin his technical depth, and he mentors future leaders while building organizations that scale. Bill also contributes to open-source front-end performance work—optimizing a popular React + D3 charting library—highlighting a continued appetite for practical, performance-focused engineering. Based in Orchard Park, NY, he combines enterprise-grade systems experience with a track record of turning complex consumer-facing requirements into efficient, high-impact products.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Cornell UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (15)
charts10
javascript10
component-kit10
performance-optimization10
chartjs10
react10
ui-components10
charting10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
data-visualization8
data-visualisation8
data-visualizations8
d3js8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
recharts/recharts
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Redefined chart library built with React and D3
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 14 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Bill primarily focused on performance improvements and optimization within the React-based charting library. Their contributions involved re-using expensive-to-generate objects, such as composed data for area and line charts, and implementing shallow equals comparisons to speed up re-renders. They also removed console.log statements and fixed a bug with rendering axes when specific ticks are given. These changes aimed to improve the overall performance and efficiency of the library.
reactcharting-libraryrechartsd3chart
synacor/eslint-plugin-preact-i18n
Jun 2018 - May 2021
eslint plugin for users of the preact-i18n library
Contributions:3 releases, 5 reviews, 22 commits in 2 years 11 months
eslint-pluginpreact
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