Will Shen
ECE 220 Course Staff at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Lake Bluff, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolWill Shen is a senior Computer Engineering student at UIUC with a strong foundation in AI, control systems, and information/data management, complemented by a Mathematics minor. He combines academic teaching experience as ECE course staff with hands-on industry work spanning autonomous vehicles at NVIDIA, software engineering at Rational Cyphy, and internships in healthcare tech and biotech. Will contributes to major open-source infrastructure—working on Trino’s core backend—demonstrating comfort with distributed query engines and schema/benchmark tooling. With 14 years of practical experience across research labs, retail, and corporate internships, he brings both systems-level thinking and pragmatic code refactoring skills to complex engineering problems. Based in Lake Bluff, Illinois, he’s a detail-oriented developer who tends to surface and remove legacy complexity while improving observability and query statistics in large codebases.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lake Forest High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (29)
query-builder10
cordova10
java10
javas10
android10
file-handling10
mobile10
query-engine10
distributed-systems9
sql9
documentation8
database8
sql-database8
relational-databases8
databases8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
trinodb/trino
Apr 2019 - Sep 2023
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 10 PRs, 22 comments in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on updating and maintaining scripts and core components related to the Trino query engine. Their work involved modifying schema generation scripts for benchmark testing and refactoring code by removing legacy type syntax. They also addressed issues related to query statistics, documentation, and type handling within the system, showing a broad understanding of the Trino's codebase.
prestodbdbmsindexingjdbcbigdata
willshen/playground
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
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