Bill Torcaso
United States
Summary
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SeniorBill Torcaso is a seasoned software engineer and systems veteran with over four decades of Unix experience and 11 years of recent professional practice, now enjoying retirement while selectively pursuing personal and open-source projects. He has led engineering and operations teams across bioinformatics, academia, and nonprofit sectors—driving cost reductions on AWS, building high-throughput genomic pipelines, and shipping production web applications. Comfortable across low-level systems, Java, Python, and deployment/installation tooling, he pairs hands-on coding and troubleshooting with pragmatic leadership and mentorship. Based in Cambridge, MA, he’s deliberately pivoting from traditional recruiting outreach to contribute thoughtfully to open-source work that aligns with his long-term Unix-rooted expertise.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (3)
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python2
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
billtorcaso/Stopwatch-Java
May 2018 - Jun 2021
This repository holds a Java "stopwatch" class for measuring elapsed execution time; it has minimal overhead at run-time, and several post-processing display functions.
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
post-processingexecution-timeoverheadmeasuringelapsed
billtorcaso/bash_functions
Feb 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:52 commits, 91 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 5 months
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