Will Myers

griffin.myers at gmail.com / linkedin

I’m a generalist software engineer with 10 years experience building for the web. I’ve led and shipped extensively across frontend, backend, and infrastructure groups.

I can help you build, design, and scale (tech or teams). Mostly, I want to solve real problems for real people with great peers.

Work

  • Button, Inc. New York, NY & Remote 2016–2022
    • Senior Staff Software Engineer; Tech Lead and IC.
    • Shipped products across the stack (ex: Purchase Path, Reach) from conception to launch to scaling on the order of 100M requests / day.
    • Took our service-oriented architecture multi-region for high availability and low latency, written about here.
    • Founded teams, interviewed 150+ candidates, ran internship program, mentored many.
  • Bloomberg L.P. New York, NY 2012–2015
    • Built ML email classifiers, OCR form fillers, web apps, and services.

Education

  • Cornell University Ithaca, NY 2010–2012
    • B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering, Summa Cum Laude.

Work Samples

Comfortable to expert in the following: javascript nodejs react graphql python django golang c c++ ruby rails mysql postgres sql rdbms redis bigquery im not what i know html css docker terraform prometheus grafana http tcp dns im what i can learn aws iam route53 vpc ec2 ecs sqs sns s3 rds lambda