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 (58)
cosmwasm10
programming-language10
solidity10
distributed-ledger-technology10
low-latency10
aptos10
contract10
sui10
latency10
throughput10
ethereum10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
move10
react-native-web9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
williamrobertson13/williamrobertson13.github.io
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
williamrobertson13/Samahope
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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