Walter Korman
Software Engineer at Vercel
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWalter Korman is a seasoned software engineer with 13+ years of experience building large-scale systems across web, mobile, server, and embedded platforms, currently at Vercel after recent principal engineering work at LMNT. He spent over a decade at Google as a Senior Staff engineer, moving between individual contributor and tech lead roles while shipping projects spanning Chrome rendering, Android private compute, research AI, and platform policy enforcement. Walter has led and grown teams from small startups to ~100-person engineering organizations, co-founded a consumer-facing SaaS for gaming communities, and repeatedly navigated technical due diligence and integration during M&A. He combines deep systems and graphics experience with practical product instincts—comfortable in C/C++/system-level work as well as modern web stacks and component frameworks. Based in San Francisco with MS and BA degrees in Computer Science from UC San Diego, he brings a rare blend of hands-on technical craft, mentorship, and cross-domain architectural leadership. An underappreciated strength is his track record of moving between highly experimental research projects and production-critical infrastructure, helping teams bridge prototype to scale.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Lick-Wilmerding High SchoolUniversity of California, San DiegoTown School for Boys
Github Skills (122)
language-model10
huggingface10
speech10
shadcn-ui10
hosting10
collaboration10
javascript10
chatgpt10
gstreamer10
solidjs10
chromium10
browser10
multimodal10
youtube10
ai10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
shaper/arcs-stories
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:104 PRs, 60 pushes, 101 branches in 3 months
shaper/arcs
Nov 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:97 pushes, 230 branches in 10 months
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