William Meng
Senior Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Meng is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building resilient backend systems across domains from game design to robotics and large-scale consumer platforms. He has advanced through roles at Shipt and Reddit, blending strong API design, data hygiene for experiments, and incident triage informed by cross-team observability. Known for proposing product-aware engineering improvements, he proactively mentors junior engineers and keeps integrations backwards-compatible while anticipating frontend needs. His early work in game systems tuning gave him a quantitative instincts for balancing complex systems—an asset he applies to metrics-driven product decisions. Based in San Francisco, he pairs technical rigor with curiosity and a runner’s discipline, training for marathons and favoring sustainable, vegetarian living.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Chemistry, Chinese, Bachelor's degree, Chemistry, Chinese at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityIntensive Full-Stack Coding Bootcamp, Intensive Full-Stack Coding Bootcamp at App Academy
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
ace-editor6
tooltip6
marketplace4
solidity3
blockchain3
ethereum3
member2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
will-meng/my-map-run
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 2 months
will-meng/CS50
Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
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