Summary
William Klingler is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building low-latency C++ systems and full-stack applications across React/Node and cloud-backed services. Currently on GTS’s Low Latency Platform team, he focuses on ultra-fast trading engine development and has rotated through core C++ roles and quantitative trading platform work in digital assets. His background includes internships at Ford and Palomino and a stint in fixed-income research, giving him both systems-level performance expertise and domain exposure to finance. Comfortable across languages from C++ and Python to JavaScript and PHP, he blends performance engineering with practical web and cloud tooling (GCP, MongoDB, Firebase). A Waterloo computer science alumnus, he pairs rigorous academic training with production experience shipping latency-sensitive systems. Notably, he moves easily between prototype web stacks and production-grade low-latency C++, making him effective at bridging product-facing features and high-performance backend engineering.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours), Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours), Computer Science at University of Waterloo
German