William Ho
Senior Software Engineer II, Retrieval Systems at Etsy
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Ho is a Senior Software Engineer II at Etsy with 11 years of backend engineering experience focused on retrieval systems, Rust, and Scala. Trained as an electrical and electronics engineer at The Cooper Union, he blends systems-level thinking with practical software design to build performant, production-grade services. Based in New York, he specializes in search and retrieval infrastructure, optimizing data pipelines and low-latency components. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he brings both deep engineering rigor and an eye for operational reliability to distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Github Skills (132)
appender9
typesafe-config9
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sbt9
scalapb9
alpakka8
akka8
fxml8
reactive8
go-api8
xml8
dotty8
scalajs8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
williamho/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:57 pushes in 4 years 10 months
williamho/userstyles
Aug 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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