Will Morrison
Man Starburst
Narragansett, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Morrison is a seasoned software engineer and strategic solutions architect with seven years of industry experience and a PhD in Physics, currently leading Trino Gateway and Trino Charts as a maintainer while serving as man @ Starburst. He blends deep systems programming in Java, C++, and Python with advanced mathematical and statistical analysis honed in academic research on brain imaging and biophysics. Will has progressed from hands-on software development and internal consulting at Ab Initio to senior leadership roles at Starburst, enabling enterprises to query anything, anywhere with Presto/Trino. Based in Narragansett, RI, he is equally comfortable debugging customer environments as designing scalable open-source tooling, and uniquely brings a researcher's quantitative rigor to practical data-platform problems.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at University of New HampshirePhD Physics, PhD Physics at Boston University
Github Skills (72)
databases10
hadoop10
bigtable10
python-client10
olap10
trino10
sql-query10
prestodb10
big-data10
data-analytics10
snowplow10
sql10
h210
presto10
database10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
willmostly/presto
Jul 2020 - Oct 2023
Home of the community managed version of Presto, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, under the auspices of the Presto Software Foundation.
Contributions:48 pushes, 8 branches, 1 comment in 3 years 2 months
queryquery-enginesqlbig-dataspark
starburstdata/presto-gateway
Apr 2023 - Jun 2023
A load balancer / proxy / gateway for prestodb
Contributions:8 reviews, 18 PRs, 98 pushes in 2 months
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