Summary
Will Prahl is a Software Engineer II in Madison, WI with 11 years of experience blending full‑stack development, research, and teaching. He has built production systems at Paychex and Epic using languages and frameworks from M and C# to TypeScript/CSS, and earlier applied NLP and statistical text models in industry and research. A former high‑school and middle‑school math teacher with an MA in Mathematics Education, he brings strong pedagogy and clear communication to complex technical problems. His background in mathematics, statistics, and linguistics informs a pragmatic, data‑minded approach to software design and debugging. Outside of engineering he pursues visual art and traditional textual study, reflecting a habit of cross‑disciplinary curiosity that often surfaces in creative problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Jewish Texts, Jewish Texts at Yeshivat Hadar
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Statistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Statistics at Grinnell College
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ulysses S Grant High School
Master of Arts - MA, Mathematics Education, Master of Arts - MA, Mathematics Education at Teachers College of Columbia University
Jewish Texts, Jewish Texts at Yeshivat Maale Gilboa
English, Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish