Will Hickman
Engineering at RAND
Park City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolWill Hickman is an engineering leader and hands-on software developer with eight years building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure, most notably founding and growing Palantir’s Network Infrastructure team from two engineers to a production-focused org owning service mesh, proxies, and firewall management. He has repeatedly combined individual contributor impact with team-building—writing core networking code while hiring and mentoring new grads into independent technical leaders and running reading groups for managers. After leading continuous delivery efforts on Palantir’s Apollo platform, he moved into bio and AI-focused engineering roles and is now working on a new venture before joining RAND to work on AI and biosecurity. Based in Park City, Utah, he brings a practitioner’s eye for operational reliability and security across complex, high-stakes environments, plus an unusual early-career background that includes intensive Arabic study and physical-systems research.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Engineering at Dartmouth College
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (41)
api10
prisma9
react9
nextjs8
typesafe8
typescript8
javascript8
nodejs8
molecule8
golang8
mesh7
linkerd7
gradle-plugin7
rust6
security6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
whickman/go-billy
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
golangfilesystemabstractionmissing
palantir/conjure-go-runtime
Feb 2020 - May 2021
Go implementation of the Conjure runtime
Contributions:12 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 3 months
golangruntimeocto-correct-managed
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