Bill Thorp
Senior Solutions Architect at Storj Labs
Greater Pittsburgh Region United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Thorp is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 15+ years building resilient, secure data systems for DoD/IC and commercial markets, now co-founding exNimbus to deliver mission-focused GIS and browser-based data platforms for disconnected and high-security environments. He led core infrastructure efforts at Storj—helping architect and ship the S3-compatible stack that delivered 98% of Storj’s data—and contributed backend networking, Kademlia, and database work to the storj open-source project. His background spans petabyte-scale satellite imagery pipelines, custom binary protocol parsers for military systems, and exabyte-scale distributed object storage, translating dense specifications into production code and operational services. Bill blends hands-on systems engineering with client-facing solutions architecture and product delivery, driving growth periods and aligning technical execution with business outcomes. Currently pursuing an MS in Computer Science (AI specialization), he pairs deep distributed-systems expertise with emerging ML/AI interests to tackle complex, security-sensitive data challenges. An entrepreneur at heart, he pairs technical breadth with practical delivery—whether shipping storage platforms, geospatial ETL, or secure browser-based tools.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of South Florida
Polish, Spanish, German
Github Skills (10)
data-storage10
distributed-systems10
object-storage10
distributed-file-system10
go10
kademlia10
networking9
database-api8
databases8
database8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
storj/storj
Oct 2018 - Feb 2022
Ongoing Storj v3 development. Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 129 commits, 234 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bill primarily worked on back-end development tasks, focusing on the core functionality of the Storj v3 decentralized cloud object storage. They implemented features related to networking and storage access, as evidenced by commits involving network address manipulation and priority queue refactoring for Kademlia. The user also contributed to the database interactions, with database-related code changes evident in their commit history. Their work involved interactions with the codebase that relates to the overlay, kademlia and database interactions.
golangsecureaffordabledistributed-storageongoing
wthorp/AGES
May 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:40 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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