software engineer / 2026

I'm Will

I write code, play music, and occasionally publish thoughts. Currently in San Francisco.

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about

I'm Will

I'm a software engineer based in the Bay Area. Most of my eng time goes to shipping features/products at work and messing around with new tools and projects in my free time. As for what type of engineer I am, I'm a Jack of all trades, master of none. Being a generalist, I like having the complete picture of a system rather than a specific vertical of it, and I'm quite adaptable.

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

Places I've worked.

  1. Hex Technologies

    May 2026 - Present

    Software Engineer

    I just started at Hex on the Analytics Core team, working on how data agents interact with analytics.

  2. Roblox

    August 2023 — May 2026

    Software Engineer

    I spent almost 3 years at Roblox. For the first year, I worked on the social graph managing mature, high-throughput systems around how users interact. My next two years were spent on content sharing, where I worked on how users/creators can capture/share content. I launched Roblox Moments 0 -> 1 and shipped some cool developer APIs recently.

  3. 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

All my thoughts, some personal, some technical.

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selected projects

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

MixPilot

My attempt at fully agentic music production. Think of it like a mixing copilot. Not quite ready to share this one but I'm excited about it.

  • Rust
  • React
  • Typescript
  • Tauri

Strava CLI

I didn't want to pay for Runna, so I made a little AI coach. You can login to strava, sync all your recent activities, and chat with the coach. Why is a CLI? No clue. Just wanted to build one.

  • Typescript

Money Motivator

My coworker once said "Whenever I don't feel like going to work, I just remember how much they're paying me that day", so I made a stupid little chrome extension to remind you exactly how much you've made today just by showing up.

  • React
  • Typescript

Techire

A school project I made with some friends a while back to fix tech hiring for interns/new grads

  • Typescript
  • React
  • MongoDB