Will Tachau
Co-Founder at Motor
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolWill Tachau is a seasoned software leader and founder with 12 years of experience building products from prototype to production in the San Francisco startup scene. Currently Co-Founder at Motor and previously Co-Founder & CTO of Nemo, he blends hands-on engineering with product leadership and has led core engineering efforts at Metawork and Coinbase (notably on Coinbase Pro margin trading). He has a track record of shipping across the full stack, mentoring engineers, and architecting systems for fast-moving teams. Early roles at Originate and Trim gave him broad exposure to product-driven engineering and team leadership. Trained in computer science at Pomona/Harvey Mudd and with coursework in compilers and deep learning, he pairs solid fundamentals with practical startup grit. Colleagues describe him simply but tellingly: he likes building things — and usually ships them.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Language Compilers and Interpreters, Language Compilers and Interpreters at Bradfield School of Computer ScienceComputer Science, Computer Science at Harvey Mudd CollegeBachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at Pomona College
Spanish, Nepali
Stackoverflow
25reputation
310reached
2answers
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Github Skills (146)
sqlite10
sql-server10
mongodb10
query-builder10
javascript9
django9
sdk9
lambda9
pyramid9
database9
rust9
webassembly9
postgresql9
raven9
javascript-client9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wtachau/spaces_rails
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:36 PRs, 119 pushes, 33 branches in 4 months
wtachau/parkingReminders
Jul 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:9 PRs, 150 pushes, 8 branches in 3 months
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