Will Hess
Principal Software Engineer at Anduril Industries
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Hess is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with nine years of experience building performance-focused systems at Anduril Industries, where he progressed from Software Engineer to Principal since 2019. He has a strong foundation in low-level and systems work, demonstrated early by integrating Apache Parquet at 1010data to improve read performance by up to 65%. Trained as a Mechanical and Aerospace engineer at Princeton, Will brings a hardware-aware perspective to software design, having also developed an inexpensive ROV/AUV during research and supported cogeneration analyses in industry internships. He excels at optimizing data pipelines and storage interfaces for demanding, real-world applications and is comfortable operating across codebases that require performance, reliability, and close ties to physical systems. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves from prototyping to production while keeping a keen eye on measurable impact.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Milton High SchoolBSE, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, BSE, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
English, French
Github Skills (17)
mocking10
testing9
unit-testing9
golang9
document-database9
mocks9
database9
go8
testify8
transactional8
programming-language8
key-value8
standard-library7
interpreter6
compiler5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
whess96/dotfiles
Sep 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:22 PRs, 26 pushes, 23 branches in 2 years 4 months
whess96/SeniorThesis
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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