Will Wilson

Co-Founder

Arlington, Virginia, United States21 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded and led innovative database technology startup.
  • Developed high-performance medical software for research.
  • Expert in distributed systems and data science.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled leader in database technology and healthcare software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsDatabasesDistributed DatabasesSoftware EngineeringProduct ManagementTeam LeadershipData ScienceStatistical AnalysisBiotechnologyResearch And Development

Other Skills

Cloud SpannerSQLACID TransactionsFault ToleranceProgramming Language DevelopmentData VirtualizationTeam ManagementMarket AnalysisNeural NetworksData IntegrationFinite Element AnalysisMedical Software DevelopmentResearch Grant WritingFoundationDBAutomated Software Testing

Experience

Antithesis

Co-Founder

Jan 2018Present · 8 yrs 2 mos

Google

Software Engineer

May 2016Jan 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • I helped build and operate Cloud Spanner: a globally consistent, highly available distributed SQL database for mission critical applications.
Distributed SystemsDatabasesCloud SpannerSQL

Apple

Software Engineer

Mar 2015Apr 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Secret stuff.

Foundationdb

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2013Mar 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • FoundationDB was a startup that built high-performance and rock-solid distributed databases with very strong guarantees (most famously multi-key ACID transactions with serializable isolation) and world-class fault tolerance.
  • Our success was enabled by a new programming language we developed, and a deterministic simulation testing technology that pushed the state of the art. I gave a talk about both of them at the 2014 Strange Loop conference, which sat on the front page of Hacker News for three days. If you're technically inclined, you may get a kick out of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc
  • In addition to working on our core key-value store product, I led development of the FoundationDB Document Layer, a full-featured document database that was one of the company's main strategic priorities from 2014 onwards. I also ran the customer early-access program for the document layer until it got too big, working closely with several major customers and prioritizing their feature requests.
  • We were acquired by Apple in 2015.
Distributed DatabasesACID TransactionsFault ToleranceProgramming Language DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Coral networks, llc.

Product Manager

Jun 2011Apr 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Coral Networks was a private equity-backed startup marketing a data virtualization platform.
  • In addition to writing plenty of code myself, I managed the team of developers who optimized the back-end storage layer. The most interesting part of the job, though, was the business side: collaborating with the marketing and finance teams, meeting with potential customers, and studying the market to prioritize feature development for our products.
  • I worked on-site with a major government customer, collaborating closely with their developers and subject-matter experts first to build a proof-of-concept and then to help them onboard onto our platform.
Data VirtualizationTeam ManagementMarket AnalysisProduct ManagementTeam Leadership

The themis group

Data Scientist

Jun 2010Jun 2011 · 1 yr

  • Themis was a 501(c)4 nonprofit providing data and analytics to other nonprofit organizations.
  • I was brought on for my mathematical and statistical knowledge, and got my hands dirty with neural networks, decision trees, agent-based simulations, variable selection, and dimension reduction. But it also marked the point in my career when I began getting interested in software for its own sake, which led to me developing a data abstraction library to facilitate data movement and integration with GIS systems.
  • The models we developed significantly outperformed naive demographic slices in a variety of issue advocacy turnout efforts. I learned a ton and it was a great experience.
Neural NetworksStatistical AnalysisData IntegrationData Science

Computational biodynamics, llc

Cofounder and Head of R&D

Sep 2004May 2010 · 5 yrs 8 mos

  • Computational Biodynamics was a biotech startup that I helped found after high school. The company's product was based on a finite element analysis model of the human brainstem and spinal cord that I built.
  • In my time there, I led the effort to turn my model into a polished piece of medical software, secured IRB approval for human subject studies, and oversaw data acquisition and analysis for studies involving more than a hundred human subjects. I also assembled multicenter research grants for DOD funding, drafted our commercialization plan, and coauthored several papers and a book chapter, including:
  • Henderson F, Wilson W, Mott S, et al. Deformative stress associated with an abnormal clivo-axial angle: A finite element analysis. Surgical Neurology International. 2010;1(30). Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2940090/.
  • Henderson FC, Wilson WA, Benzel EC. Pathophysiology of Cervical Myelopathy: Biomechanics and Deformative Stress. In: Spine Surgery: techniques, complication avoidance, and management. Vol 1. 3rd ed. Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2012.
  • Wong KH, Choi J, Wilson W, Berry J, Henderson S. Spinal cord stress injury assessment (SCOSIA): clinical applications of mechanical modeling of the spinal cord and brainstem. In: Proceedings of SPIE.Vol 7261. Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA: SPIE; 2009:726106-8. Available at: http://spie.org/Publications/Proceedings/Paper/10.1117/12.813791.
Finite Element AnalysisMedical Software DevelopmentResearch Grant WritingBiotechnologyResearch and Development

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