Bill Walker
Search SRE, Engineering Manager at Google
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Walker is an experienced engineering leader and Search SRE based in California with over two decades of software work rooted in research-to-product transitions. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UIUC, he has led teams at Google, Mozilla, Cisco and 8x8, cultivating robust engineering practices around automated testing, continuous integration, and productizing prototypes. He helped drive Progressive Web App adoption at Mozilla and now focuses on reliability and scalability for search systems at Google. A longtime advocate for engineering culture change, he blends hands-on SRE work with people leadership and a curiosity for web audio and field birding that underscores his attention to signal in noisy systems.
14 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
University High SchoolM. S., Computer Science, M. S., Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
9reputation
82reached
2answers
0questions
Github Skills (65)
csv-parser9
csv8
reader8
pdf-generation8
delimited8
pdf8
text-parser8
csv-reader8
stream7
service-worker7
javascript7
devtools7
html6
music6
audio6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wfwalker/freesound-experiment
Apr 2016 - Jan 2021
experiments using Freesound API to feed into Web Audio API
Contributions:215 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 4 years 10 months
apiaudio-apiaudioweb-audiofreesound
wfwalker/statler
Jul 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 4 pushes in 9 months
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