William Meehan
Vice President - Operations
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Meehan is a senior operations and facilities executive with a decade of experience leading large-scale retail and entertainment real estate assets across New York and the U.S., currently serving as Vice President - Operations at American Dream. He has overseen flagship properties valued in the billions and directed technical and facilities operations for major brands including Merlin Entertainments, Related Companies, and Simon Property Group. Known for blending strategic capital and operational performance with tenant services and technical delivery, he excels at driving reliability and guest experience in complex, mixed-use environments. Uncommonly for an operations leader, he also contributes to high-performance open-source back-end projects—improving build systems and Python runtimes—demonstrating strong technical problem-solving and systems-thinking skills. Based in New York, he brings a track record of scaling operations, optimizing processes, and integrating technical solutions to enhance asset value and operational resilience.
10 years of coding experience
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Github Skills (17)
caching10
sqlite10
python10
query-optimization10
build-system10
interpreter10
java10
type-system10
javas10
compiler-design10
build-tools10
testing9
data-structure9
algorithm9
algorithms9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
facebookincubator/cinder
Jun 2021 - Jul 2022
Cinder is Meta's internal performance-oriented production version of CPython.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 commits, 1 issue in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on enhancing the performance and capabilities of Meta's internal CPython version, Cinder. Their contributions included implementing support for `None` in `in/not-in` comparison operations and binding the results of comparison operations to boolean values. Furthermore, the user improved the type system by marking certain built-in types as exact and refactoring the exact()/inexact() methods. These changes involved modifications to the compiler's static analysis tools and test suites to ensure the correct type handling within the Cinder runtime environment.
pythoninternaljitcinderruntime
facebook/buck
May 2017 - Aug 2017
A fast build system that encourages the creation of small, reusable modules over a variety of platforms and languages.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the build system's core logic, focusing on improvements to the query environment and artifact caching mechanisms. They refactored and improved code related to query expressions by making them immutable and implementing a generalized visitor pattern for traversal. Further contributions involved the development and integration of SQLite-based artifact caching, enhancing the build system's efficiency and performance. The changes also included optimizing dependency resolution.
buckpythonplatformsandroidlanguages
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