William Rusnack
OSS Commercialization Expert
Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Rusnack is an OSS commercialization expert and systems-language designer with 11 years of hands-on engineering experience, currently turning research-grade Haskell projects into commercial products like AI Edit Core. He spearheads the BID Suite effort—formalizing verified compilers, bidirectional parsing, and a novel distributed OS architecture—while publishing specs and reference implementations that bridge academic rigor and product strategy. His background ranges from Haskell backend and PureScript frontend work to build/deploy automation and battery simulation at Ford, giving him a rare mix of formal language design and practical production engineering. William also experiments with narrative design—using a web novel to stress-test system assumptions—and has leveraged failed research efforts (the biparser) as direct motivation for creating new language tooling. Based in Michigan, he focuses on languages and runtimes (Haskell, PureScript, Rust) and on incremental monetization strategies that fund long-term open-source development.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan College of EngineeringBachelor of Science in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan's College of Engineering - Ann Arbor
English
Stackoverflow
938reputation
909kreached
17answers
12questions
Github Skills (200)
hunit10
testing10
cryptocurrency10
cpp10
purescript10
browser10
markup-language10
html10
child-process10
nodejs10
querying10
upstream10
folding10
sublime10
cryptography10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
BebeSparkelSparkel/biparsing
Mar 2020 - Apr 2021
Bidirectional Parsing. Work in Progress
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 138 pushes in 1 year 1 month
pythonin-progressparsingparserwork-in-progress
BebeSparkelSparkel/servant
Sep 2019 - Feb 2024
Main repository for the servant libraries -- DSL for describing, serving, querying, mocking, documenting web applications and more!
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 3 branches in 4 years 6 months
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