William Gottschalk
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Gottschalk is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable systems across Ad Tech and machine learning infrastructure, currently contributing to Netflix after helping shape a next-generation ML platform at Outerbounds. He has led cross-functional initiatives that measurably reduced costs and latencies—delivering a 15% compute cost reduction and 10% job-duration improvement at Snap, and driving GraphQL adoption that cut P99 latency by up to 80% and supported a $53M-quarter ad product launch. Comfortable across full-stack, infra, and ML ops, he focuses on realtime observability, autoscaling, billing, and multi-cloud reliability while coaching teams to raise engineering practices. Trained in biomedical engineering with a master’s in software engineering, he blends analytical rigor with practical product impact and a taste for solving hard systems problems end-to-end.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteMaster’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at Harvard University Extension School
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Github Skills (200)
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dvc10
dataloader10
twirp10
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mlflow9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wgottschalk/algorithm-design
Jul 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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