Will Myers
Tech Lead at Martian
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Myers is a seasoned tech lead and engineering executive with 11 years of experience building distributed systems, machine learning pipelines, and high-throughput services from San Francisco. Currently leading engineering at Martian after serving as VP Head of Technology at Telcoin, he brings hands-on expertise in Rust, Python, GraphQL and ML infrastructure. He co-founded and led engineering at Voxjar, where he rebuilt a GraphQL API in Rust, managed billion-item storage systems, and cut cloud costs by over 70%. An active open-source contributor, Will has contributed backend work to notable projects like the spack package manager and the async-graphql Rust library, demonstrating deep familiarity with package/build tooling and Rust macro/serialization internals. His background blends academic ML research—publishing and building AutoRL/large-scale conversational systems—with practical production experience handling thousands of requests per second. That mix of research rigor and operational discipline makes him adept at turning complex ML and systems research into reliable, cost-efficient production services.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (29)
gnu-make10
package-management10
python10
build-system10
cmake10
wpgraphql10
rust-crates10
crate10
wordpress-graphql10
async-await10
graphql10
rust10
server10
scientific-computing10
c-language9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 11 PRs, 53 comments in 27 days
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to adding and maintaining package definitions for the Spack package manager. Their work involved creating new package specifications (e.g., py-protobuf, lrzip, jasper, ilmbase, opencv), which include details on fetching, building, and installing software dependencies. They also fixed bugs and made improvements to existing packages, as well as updated the core functionality of Spack, specifically related to handling git specifications and Python extensions. The user demonstrated expertise in the configuration and build processes of various scientific software packages.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
async-graphql/async-graphql
May 2020 - Sep 2020
A GraphQL server library implemented in Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 119 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Will contributed to the `async-graphql` library by implementing features and fixing issues related to its core functionality. They made changes including adding derives for serialization and deserialization for JSON, fixing typos, and adding support for crate names in derive macros. They also addressed specific issues, such as removing a name check to allow for certain type names and documenting a blocking read operation.
async-awaitrustrust-crategraphql-servergraphql
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