software engineer / 2026

I'm Will

I write code, play music, and occasionally publish thoughts. Currently in the Bay Area.

↓ scrollsan francisco · 37.77°N

about

I'm Will — I build software and play music.

I'm a software engineer based in the Bay Area. Most of my time goes to shipping quality features at work and messing around with new tools in my free time on personal projects.

Outside of code, I do a few things. Aside from reading, gaming, and dragging myself to the gym, I am a musician. I grew up playing in a ton of different groups from grunge to jazz to pop, and while I'm not performing at the moment, my ideal Saturday night is spent in a jam circle.

experience

Selected places I've worked.

  1. Roblox

    2023 — present

    Software Engineer

    I spent my first year at Roblox working on the social graph managing mature, high-throughput systems around how users interact. In late 2024, I switched to content sharing, where I worked on how users/creators can capture/share content. Launched Roblox Moments 0 -> 1 and worked on developer APIs. Lots of C# .NET and Lua.

  2. Meta, Amazon, Nasdaq

    2021 — 2022

    Internships

    I interned at some great places and learned a lot. At Nasdaq, I built webapps around homomorphic encrpytion. At Amazon, I automated some processes previously manual processes pertaining to work authorization. At Meta, I built budget estimator internal tooling for the quick promotion team.

writing

Notes, mostly to myself.

selected projects

Things I've made that I can talk about deeply.

Project one

Engineer · Designer

What it does and why it mattered, in a single sentence. Plus one more if it earns the line.

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Postgres

Project two

Sole engineer

Tool that solved a problem nobody else thought worth solving until it stopped working.

  • Go
  • SQLite
  • WebSockets

Project three

Maintainer

A small library with a surprisingly outsized effect on a big codebase.

  • Python
  • OSS

Project four

Tech lead

Internal platform feature that took months and is invisible to users — exactly as intended.

  • Rust
  • gRPC
  • Kubernetes