William Chan
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Chan is a Forward Deployed Software Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building distributed systems, developer tools, and AI-driven products across companies like Palantir, Bloomberg, Cohere, and Scale AI. He combines full‑stack fluency (Go, Python, JavaScript, Java) with production experience in distributed scheduling, infrastructure security, and rollout of high‑impact features such as fraud detection to millions of users. Comfortable switching between low-level systems work and developer experience, he has shipped API/SDK versioning and company-wide test suites that improved reliability and developer velocity. A former NSERC-funded researcher in reinforcement learning and the founder of a nonprofit esports org, he brings both technical depth and entrepreneurial drive to cross-functional teams.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Business Administration, Honours Bachelor of Business Administration at Ivey Business School at Western UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Western UniversityRichmond Green Secondary School
Github Skills (16)
data-structures10
pandas10
python10
data-science10
data-structure10
data-analysis10
sdk9
npm-package9
javascript9
open-source9
nodejs8
typescript6
go3
reinforcement-learning3
prediction-model3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
willie3838/grind
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:136 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
willie3838/pandas
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
polarspythondatalabeled-datamanipulation
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