Will Burr
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWill Burr is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with nine years of experience building consumer and privacy-focused Android features and health-tech products, currently contributing to Fitbit’s AI personal health coach and the Privacy Sandbox for Android. A Master of Engineering in Computing from Imperial College London, he combines strong academic foundations with hands-on product engineering across full-stack and embedded contexts. His career spans internships and short-term roles that reveal a breadth of practical experience—from wearable-software at Corner Wearables to research-informed work at Netcraft and rapid delivery at consultancy Theodo. Will is approachable for students and early-career engineers, often mentoring on studying CS, life at Imperial, and transitioning into companies like Google. Based in Stony Stratford, UK, he balances deep technical contributions with a clear interest in privacy, health, and developer education—an uncommon mix that informs his product-focused engineering.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Altrincham Grammar School for BoysMaster of Engineering - MEng Computing, Master of Engineering - MEng Computing at Imperial College London
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Github Skills (11)
backend7
part-of-speech6
nlp6
mongodb6
language-processing5
nodejs5
machine-learning4
dialogue-systems4
named-entity-recognition4
natural-language-processing4
conversations3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mobilise-xyz/mobilise-api
Jun 2019 - Dec 2020
Backend!
Contributions:7 releases, 123 PRs, 267 pushes in 1 year 6 months
backendnodejsexpressmongodb
mobilise-xyz/mobilise-frontend
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
Smart Volunteer Coordination.
Contributions:8 releases, 90 PRs, 155 pushes in 4 months
volunteercoordination
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