William Harmon
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Harmon is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in New York with 14 years of experience building cross-platform consumer and embedded features, specializing in Android, WiFi/Bluetooth, backend Java/SQL, and web technologies. At Google he founded Nearby Connections and Quick Share and now leads the Nearby platform as an Uber TL/TLM, scaling Quick Share into a cross-platform sharing standard with AirDrop interop across Android, ChromeOS, and Windows. He combines hands-on implementation with product-level stewardship, having shipped high-usage Android apps earlier in his career through his company Xlythe (several apps with millions of users). William’s background spans startups, enterprise R&D, and large-scale product teams (Samsung, AnyPresence, Google), giving him a rare blend of low-level connectivity expertise and system design for consumer workflows. He enjoys hard technical challenges and repeatedly surfaces practical solutions that bridge device-level protocols and cross-device user experiences. Trained at the University of Waterloo, he brings both strong technical fundamentals and entrepreneurial instincts to platform-scale problems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology Management, Math, Computer Science, Information Technology Management, Math, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
displays10
android-view10
camera9
pan8
android7
loss7
xml6
android-permissions6
nine-patch6
android-library6
textview6
scroll6
java6
aar5
photo4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Xlythe/Arity
Apr 2013 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 5 pushes in 9 years 6 months
AnyPresence/AnyPresence-Android-UI-Library
Mar 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 6 months
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