William Robertson
Staff Software Engineer at Mysten Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Robertson is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building reliable systems across consumer and infrastructure-focused companies. He progressed from internships and early roles at Upthere and Yelp to product-facing engineering at Airbnb and Dropbox, and now leads technical initiatives at Mysten Labs. William has a track record of stepping into increasing ownership quickly—moving from senior engineer to staff within three years at Mysten—and brings experience shipping at scale in fast-moving, distributed environments. His background includes select early-career recognition like a Kleiner Perkins engineering fellowship, reflecting both technical aptitude and strong networking in the Valley. A Virginia Tech CS graduate, he blends pragmatic product engineering with system-level thinking to tackle performance and reliability challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. in Computer Science, B.S. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (46)
programming-language10
distributed-ledger-technology10
low-latency10
blockchain10
nativewind10
smart-contracts10
move10
react-native-web9
tailwind9
react9
react-native8
frontend8
wallet8
android8
tailwindcss8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
williamrobertson13/device-sdk-ts
May 2025 - Mar 2026
✨ A library enabling applications to communicate with Ledger devices.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
williamrobertson13/williamrobertson13.github.io
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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