William Q
Software Engineer at Chalk
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Q is a software engineer based in New York with a decade of experience focused on making parallelism and concurrency more accessible. He blends deep academic training—a PhD candidate and educator at Harvard—with production systems experience at MongoDB and fintech, plus internships at Google and Quora, bringing research rigor to real-world query optimization and distributed systems problems. Currently at Chalk, he applies this expertise to practical engineering challenges, having previously worked on alternative 4G LTE connectivity at Facebook and talent-discovery features at Gem. A documented advocate for parallelism, he bridges teaching, research, and production code, often translating complex concurrency ideas into developer-friendly tools and optimizations.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Engineering (MEng) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Masters of Engineering (MEng) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Harvard University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (10)
databases10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
mongodb10
nosql10
mongodb-database10
database10
data-structure9
bson9
data-structures9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
readablesystems/sto-scripts
Mar 2019 - Jul 2022
The one place to look for scripts that run STO-related benchmarks
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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wqian94/AuO
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:16 releases, 1 PR, 68 pushes in 1 month
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