William Perkins
Staff Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Berlin, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Perkins is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with 15 years of experience building products, teams, and high-scale systems across startups and established companies. Currently at Reddit, he brings a blend of hands-on engineering and product-minded architecture honed through freelance consulting and a long partnership at Laan Labs focused on computer vision, ML, and AR. His background spans server infrastructure, desktop clients, and embedded research—early work on data compression for wireless sensor networks reflects a strong foundation in algorithms and systems. He has moved fluidly between building shipping products (cloud-managed printing, AR apps) and shaping platform-level architecture, making him equally comfortable mentoring teams and diving into code. Known for entrepreneurial drive, he often bridges research ideas into practical, production-ready features.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSEE, Electrical Engineering, MSEE, Electrical Engineering at Louisiana State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (65)
woocommerce10
wordpress10
scenekit9
swift9
generative9
ios9
fpga8
screeps8
pipeline8
multimodal8
docker8
jina8
baidu8
fastapi7
deep-learning7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
laanlabs/FootRenderer
Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
A data synthesizer for creating datasets of feet from a first-person perspective.
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 10 months
synthesizerpersonperspectivemachine-learningfirst-person
willperkins/turbo-barnacle
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:10 releases, 18 pushes, 10 tags in 1 day
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