Will Engler
Senior Software Engineer at University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolWill Engler is a Senior Software Engineer in Chicago with 11 years building full-stack and backend systems across startups, government, and enterprise. He blends practical product delivery (JS, Python, Postgres) with infrastructure and automation expertise (Go, AWS, Terraform), recently focusing on AI and data infrastructure for science at Globus Labs. His background includes shipping real-time GIS and WebRTC features at Axon, reducing cloud provisioning lead times at Nava, and knitting together cross-team systems at Compass. Will mentors junior engineers and often owns end-to-end stacks—from UI and frontend architecture to backend services and ops—making him effective at both rapid feature delivery and long-term system reliability. An underappreciated strength is his experience translating stakeholder needs across government and commercial domains, enabling pragmatic solutions in regulated or complex environments.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (100)
apache-spark10
model-management10
prompt-engineering10
mlmodel10
mlflow10
llmops10
ai10
open-datasets10
flash-messages10
observability10
dfa10
evaluation10
langchain10
ember-addon10
open-source10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
UrbanCCD-UChicago/plenario-explorer
Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
Discover and visualize datasets from Plenario
Contributions:136 commits, 5 PRs, 73 pushes in 7 months
discovervisualizedatasetdata-visualizationdatasets
UrbanCCD-UChicago/plenario
Sep 2015 - Jun 2017
API for geospatial and time aggregation across multiple open datasets.
Contributions:338 commits, 44 PRs, 286 pushes in 1 year 9 months
geospatialopen-datasets
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