William Sommers
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Sommers is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack products in Ruby, TypeScript, and React, currently at Meta in New York. He has a track record of rapidly iterating on product-facing features and developer tools, previously leading the Reservations team at Rent the Runway and contributing across frontend and backend systems. An experienced open-source contributor, he notably expanded language support and testing infrastructure for the popular cursorless project, improving maintainability and editor ergonomics. William also brings uncommon editorial expertise in technical writing, having served as technical copy editor for influential Ruby books like Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby and Michael Hartl’s Rails Tutorial. He pairs hands-on coding with regular profiling and pragmatic debugging, and his background in history and Chinese study reflects a broad intellectual curiosity that informs collaborative problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
AB, History, AB, History at Davidson CollegeChinese language study, Chinese language study at Boomerang Language Institute China
Github Skills (10)
css10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
scs10
vscode-extension10
typescript-types10
sc10
testing10
ruby9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cursorless-dev/cursorless
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Don't let the cursor slow you down
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:93 reviews, 17 commits, 18 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:William contributed significantly to the `cursorless` project by adding support for new languages, including Ruby, CSS, and SCSS, thereby expanding the project's capabilities. They also worked on improving existing features, such as generator support in JavaScript/TypeScript and unit selection for values in SCSS/CSS. Furthermore, the user implemented tests to validate the added features and improved code quality across the project. Their work included refactoring and upgrading testing infrastructure, which implies improvements in the project's overall maintainability.
talonvoiceslowvscodevoice-codingvscode-extension
Will-Sommers/cursorless-vscode
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Don't let the cursor slow you down
Contributions:2 reviews, 100 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
vscodecursorletslow
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