William Brockman
Founding Optimization Software Engineer
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Brockman is a founding optimization software engineer and hands-on technical leader with two decades of experience building scalable cloud systems and novel products at Google, Verily, and startups. He combines full-stack engineering with deep mathematical expertise (Ph.D. in Mathematics, Harvard A.B.), repeatedly shipping high-impact launches—from Google Ngram Viewer to healthcare scheduling and PHI-compliant data platforms. Comfortable leading small agile teams, he excels at turning ambiguous, domain-heavy problems (radar, genomics, healthcare) into production-grade systems and solver-driven optmization services. Known for rapid prototyping under real-world constraints, he bridges research-grade math with pragmatic software engineering and regulatory-savvy implementation. Based in Newton, MA, he now splits time between founding roles and consulting, bringing rare breadth across academia, enterprise R&D, and product incubation.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoA.B. Mathematics, A.B. Mathematics at Harvard University
French
Github Skills (37)
spark-ml10
genome10
gatk10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
science10
drc9
spark9
transition8
apache-spark8
application7
wdl7
scientific-workflow6
workflow-description-language6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wbrockman/dataflow-java
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
utility-classesgcppipelinegoogle-cloud-platformbigquery
wbrockman/utils-java
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
genomicsjava-commonjava-filesintegrationsjava
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