Edwin Watkeys
Product Engineer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEdwin Watkeys is a product engineer with 15 years of experience building and mentoring teams to deliver industrial-scale data practices that turn insights into action across industries from advertising to pharmaceuticals. He blends hands-on engineering—comfortable coding in Go, Clojure, Swift, shell, and even 6502 assembly—with product leadership that rethinks how businesses operate. Based in New York, he has a track record of shipping pragmatic, auditable solutions in e-commerce, finance, and education while coaching teams to raise their technical bar. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core functionality of the Chibi Scheme interpreter, enhancing its REPL and parser behavior. His unconventional background in applied philosophy informs a systems-oriented, user-focused approach to product engineering.
15 years of coding experience
3/4ths of a B.S., Applied Philosophy, 3/4ths of a B.S., Applied Philosophy at Drexel University
Github Skills (7)
scheme10
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repr10
lisp10
parsing9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ashinn/chibi-scheme
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Official chibi-scheme repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Edwin primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Chibi Scheme interpreter, specifically focusing on enhancements to the REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) environment. Their contributions included adding history support for evaluated expressions, incorporating documentation for the history feature, and fixing an argument order in a parsing function. They also addressed an issue with the `main` function's invocation.
scheme
thunknyc/adtech-macros
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:58 commits, 34 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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