William Beckler
Open Source Strategist
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Beckler is an open-source strategist and founder with 10+ years delivering high-impact distributed systems, protocol-driven tooling, and privacy-conscious SaaS. He currently leads efforts at the Open Markets Initiative and Scaled Sources to harmonize binary market data and speed low-latency price discovery through code-generation frameworks. Previously he scaled engineering and privacy programs at Stella Connect/Medallia and led OpenSearch client, dashboards, and migration teams at AWS, helping prepare a rare transfer of a major project to the Linux Foundation. An entrepreneur at heart, he co-founded AllTheRooms.com and earlier incubated products at lastminute.com, blending analytics, rapid iteration, and business strategy to drive exits and product-market fit. His background in law, civil rights organizing, and GDPR/cybersecurity consulting gives him an unusual combination of technical depth, regulatory savvy, and community-building skills. Colleagues know him as "The General" for his knack for turning ambitious, cross-disciplinary projects into practical, production-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
J.D., Law, J.D., Law at Columbia Law SchoolBachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics and Physics at Colgate UniversityLely High School
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Github Skills (152)
opensearch10
dashboard10
low-level10
databases10
hadoop10
bigtable10
masking10
ruby-client10
elasticsearch10
trino10
sql-query10
prestodb10
go-client10
big-data10
data-analytics10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
alltherooms/angularjs-logarithmic-slider
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
wbeckler/amazon-opensearch-service-developer-guide
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Content for the Amazon OpenSearch Service Developer Guide. Issues and pull requests appreciated.
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
amazonpull-requestsopensearchawsdeveloper-guide
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