Bill Torcaso
Chief Imagination Officer
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill 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
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstB.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at Hampshire College
python 2.7, java 1.7, sql, mongo db, bash and linux utilities
Stackoverflow
135reputation
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8answers
10questions
Github Skills (11)
carriage-return6
algorithm6
filename6
pyparsing6
vagrant6
python6
matplotlib6
django6
django-templates6
abstract-syntax-tree3
markdown2
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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