Willis Kennedy
Senior Software Engineer at Roblox
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolWillis Kennedy is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale data and backend systems for game and analytics platforms, currently powering developer-facing analytics at Roblox. He blends deep Spark and distributed-systems expertise with practical product instincts from roles at Unity and IBM, where he architected customer journey analytics and high-throughput S3 write pipelines. At Unity he led efforts to simulate pre-release games and framed tuning as a blackbox optimization problem, applying ML-driven iteration to game balance and QA. Holder of a Georgia Tech master’s in machine learning, he has a track record of moving batch pipelines to modern DataFrame patterns, solving production pain points like temp-write avoidance and GDPR compliance. Based in the Bay Area, he thrives at the intersection of data engineering, ML, and game development—turning complex telemetry into actionable metrics for millions of players and developers.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.9, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.9 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (22)
bigquery10
postgresql10
mysql10
snowflake10
databricks10
analytics10
semantic10
sql10
serverless10
rust10
cube10
world-of-warcraft9
spark9
athena9
simulations9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mormigil/ClassicIgniteSimulator
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes in 20 days
venturednetwork/whitepaper
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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