Will Q is a software engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems and blockchain tooling from the Greater Tampa Bay Area. He contributes to prominent open-source projects, including work on RChain’s CBC-Casper proof-of-stake platform where he enhanced block-processing logic, and to QUANTAXIS where he improved database integrations and crypto exchange data pipelines. Comfortable across distributed systems, databases (MongoDB), and web3 stacks, he combines practical backend engineering with domain knowledge in decentralized execution and quantitative data feeds. Trained in business administration, he brings a pragmatic product sensibility to technical problems and a knack for improving reliability in both financial data workflows and blockchain consensus layers.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at Saint Petersburg College
Blockchain (smart contract) platform using CBC-Casper proof of stake + Rholang for concurrent execution.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:4 releases, 658 reviews, 703 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Will contributed to the rchain/rchain repository, a blockchain and smart contract platform. The commits focused on functionality enhancements within the Casper layer, including adding and modifying methods related to block processing. The code changes primarily involve the addition of methods within the block API and the modification of the proto files, suggesting involvement in the backend logic.
Contributions:32 commits, 9 PRs, 1 push in 10 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the quantaxis project. Their work involved configuring database settings and integrating with MongoDB. They also added comments to the code, improved the Binance data fetching and saving logic, and fixed related bugs. The user also added the bitmex data download functionality.
financepythonquantquantaxis
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