William W.

Software Engineer

Palo Alto, California, United States2 yrs 9 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 74x hackathon winner with over $200K in prizes
  • Software Engineer at Meta focusing on machine learning
  • Critical thinker with strategic analysis experience in VC
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineer with a strong focus on AI and data analysis in the tech industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningSoftware EngineeringData AnalysisData QualityData AnnotationAi IntegrationInternal Tools DevelopmentVenture CapitalStrategic OperationsReact Native DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentAutomationWeb DevelopmentUi/ux Design

Other Skills

Azure AIMixed RealitySoftware DevelopmentPublic RelationsTechnology ScoutingSales & MarketingSales PresentationsPitching IdeasPublic SpeakingC (Programming Language)User Experience Design (UED)BlockchainEquity ValuationCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)DeFi

About

Nice to meet you, my name is William! ๐Ÿ˜„ TLDR: - 74x hackathon winner ($200K+ in prizes) - 7x SWE intern (Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, B, C, D, Bloomberg, now at Meta) - 3x VC Intern (Canada's largest VC and largest FinTech VC) I am a: ๐Ÿ›  Builder - 50+ hackathon winner across AI, VR, and blockchain. SWE at Seed, Series A, B & C startups. Data at 4000+ employee bank. Received interviews twice for YC and YC China's S23 batch. I learn fast and love solving problems! ๐Ÿ“Š Critical Thinker - Strategy & Operations at Canada's largest VC and Canada's largest FinTech VC. Performed strategic analysis to achieve operational and strategic objectives across 22 funds, 2500+ investments, and $10B assets under management. ๐Ÿค Connector - Ambassador for Consensys (Metamask), Solana, and Ripple; ran logistics for NFT art galleries at Korea Blockchain Week, Permissionless II, and Art Basel Miami (54K combined attendees) - I bring together the right people, ideas, and resources to foster collaboration and innovation. โ˜€ Optimist - Passionate about bringing the marginal cost of experiences to 0 and the future closer to the present everyday. ๐ŸŽฎ Fun Fact: I achieved the top rank of "Legend" in Hearthstone (Top 1700 out of 100 million total players) back in Grade 10! ๐ŸŽ‰ Interests: Musicals & Karaoke, PC Building, Strategy Games Awards & Distinctions (in $CAD): ๐Ÿฅ‡ Winner - ETHDenver ($17,500 Prize, 38K attendees) - Mar 2024 ๐Ÿ† 2nd Stacks Track, 4th Stellar Track - Consensus 2024 ($18,000 Prize, 15K attendees) - Jun 2024 ๐Ÿ† 3 First Prizes, 4 Sponsor Prizes - ETHWaterloo ($10,000 Prize, 650+ hackers) - Jun 2023 ๐Ÿฅ‡ 1st Place Overall - OlympiHacks ($5,000 Prize, 200+ hackers) - May 2023 ๐Ÿฅ‡ 1st Place Overall - ETHBoston ($5,000 Prize) - Apr 2023 ๐Ÿ† Runner-up - Chainlink Spring 23 Hackathon ($5,000 Prize, 2.4K hackers) - Jun 2023 ๐Ÿฅ‡ 1st Place Solana Track - LionHack 2023 ($4,000 Prize) - Apr 2023 ๐Ÿ† 9 Sponsor Prizes - ETHGlobal NYC ($4,000 Prize, 1K hackers) - Sep 2023 ๐Ÿ† 3rd Place, Global Finalist - NASA Space Apps Toronto (55,000+ participants) - Oct 2023 Unlisted: Google x MHacks, ETHGlobal Frameworks, IvyHacks.ai, ETHGlobal London, McGill AGC, Starknet HHโ€™24, Smith FinTech4Good Hackathon, ETHGlobal Circuit Breaker, DeerHacks โ€˜23, QHacks '23, GenAI Hackathon, Entrepreneur First, Equitable Elevation I, Hack the Valley, Blockhacks, UofT Hack The MIST, MetHacks, DeerHacks, MLH MapHacks 2, MLH x GitHub All-In Hackathon, UofT EWB Hackathon, Treasure Hacks 3.5, GryphHacks 2023, AI HackFest, MLH x NEAR Hackathon, Grapevine Labs Hackathon, Grapevine Fall Summit Hackathon

Experience

2 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
7 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Meta

Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Jul 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 10 mos ยท Menlo Park, California, United States ยท Hybrid

  • ๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ Reels Recommendation Modelling
  • ๐Ÿ‘€ Delivered FB Reels recommendation improvements through model enhancement across content understanding, video diversity, and freshness to bring a better experience for the 1.6 billion users who watch Facebook Reels daily.
Machine LearningSoftware Engineering

Bloomberg

Software Engineer Intern

Aug 2024 โ€“ Dec 2024 ยท 4 mos ยท New York City Metropolitan Area ยท Hybrid

  • ๐Ÿง  Contracts Intelligence Team
  • ๐Ÿ™Œ Received Highest Performance Rating of "Outstanding"
  • ๐Ÿฅณ Received New Grad Return Offer
Software EngineeringData Analysis

Cohere

Senior Data Quality Specialist

Jun 2024 โ€“ Nov 2024 ยท 5 mos ยท Toronto, Ontario, Canada ยท Remote

  • ๐Ÿ’พ Data Annotation
Data QualityData Annotation

Passes

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2024 โ€“ Aug 2024 ยท 2 mos

  • ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Internal Tools for the Operations Team (Creator Earnings and Management)
Software EngineeringInternal Tools Development

Microsoft

Guest Developer

Apr 2024 โ€“ Oct 2024 ยท 6 mos

  • ๐Ÿ† Invited twice as a paid guest developer to showcase my project to the Microsoft Azure AI team, where I demonstrated the integration of Azure AI models into VR applications. Awarded 2nd place (out of 1200+ participants) at the Microsoft Generative AI Hackathon for developing an advanced multimodal application using Azure AI and Meta Mixed Reality solo. This recognition came with $4,000 USD in prizes, $1,000 in Azure credits, and a feature in a Microsoft blog post. I also had the opportunity to collaborate with the Microsoft team, providing insights on developer experiences, identifying pain points, and offering feedback to help refine Azure AI for future developers!
Software EngineeringAI Integration

Portage

Data Intern, Research

Sep 2023 โ€“ May 2024 ยท 8 mos ยท Toronto, Ontario, Canada ยท Hybrid

  • ๐Ÿ”ฌ Conducting portfolio and fund analysis at Canada's largest FinTech VC across 65 investments (including Wealthsimple, KOHO, Borrowell, Clark, Albert, Alpaca) in 13 countries with $3 billion in aggregate assets under management.
  • VC Portfolio includes:
  • Wealthsimple ($5B Valuation), Clark ($1B Valuation), Koho ($800M Valuation), Albert ($600M Valuation), Alpaca ($500M Valuation)
Data AnalysisVenture Capital

Bdc

2 roles

Data Intern, Strategy & Operations

Apr 2023 โ€“ Aug 2023 ยท 4 mos

  • ๐Ÿ“Š Performed strategic analysis, portfolio reporting, systems management, and transactional support to achieve operational and strategic objectives across 20 funds, 2500+ investments, and $7B assets under management.
  • VC Portfolio includes:
  • Hopper ($5B Valuation), Applyboard ($4B Valuation), Trulioo ($2B Valuation), Paper, KOHO, Borrowell, Xanadu, Waabi, Super.com, Wattpad (Acquired by Naver Corporation for $600M)
Data AnalysisStrategic Operations

Data Intern, Thrive Venture Fund

Jan 2023 โ€“ Apr 2023 ยท 3 mos

  • ๐Ÿ BDC Capital is Canada's largest and most active venture capital investor with over $7 billion assets under management (AUM), over 200 portfolio companies, and 7 direct investment funds.
  • Within BDC Capital, the Thrive Platform is the largest investment platform of its kind in the world, with $500 million dedicated towards supporting women entrepreneurs and investors across Canada. The Thrive Platform includes a direct investment fund, lab, and fund-of-funds.
  • The direct investment fund, Thrive Venture Fund, invests in:
  • Women-led technology companies
  • Top-performing teams that aim to transform today's global markets while fostering a network to support and create great female tech leaders
  • Early-stage venture profile companies in the Seed, Series A and Series B stages
Data AnalysisVenture Capital

Super

Software Engineer Intern

May 2022 โ€“ Aug 2022 ยท 3 mos ยท San Francisco, California, United States

  • โšก Back-end platform development at North America's 5th fastest growing technology company with over $200M USD raised to date. Snapcommerce eclipses $1 billion in sales this year, helping our customers achieve over $100+ million of direct savings since our inception while growing by more than 32,000% between 2017 and 2021 to rank 5th on Deloitte's Fast 500 Awards.
  • Our platform engineering team owns Snapcommerce's search, booking, and fintech engines, tackling the most complex performance, scalability, and infrastructure backend challenges at the company. The engines handle 100+ million searches/day, ingest over 1TB/day of data and processes over $1MM/day in sales, while maintaining a 99.9+% uptime. We provide the platform on top of which our product engineering team builds product features.
  • (Snapcommerce has been rebranded to Super)
Backend DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Irly

Software Engineer

Mar 2022 โ€“ Apr 2023 ยท 1 yr 1 mo ยท Remote

  • ๐Ÿ’Œ Developed and maintained React Native features for IRLY (acquired, Gen Z dating app) as an independent contractor with equity compensation.
Software EngineeringReact Native Development

Somm

Software Engineer Intern

Dec 2021 โ€“ Apr 2022 ยท 4 mos ยท New York, New York, United States

  • ๐Ÿท Spearheaded new product development at Somm.ai (Forbes 30 Under 30 2022), home to the world's largest updating database of on-premise wine lists.
  • Automated the ingestion of 6,700+ documents from MongoDB to Somm.aiโ€™s deployment on AWS by leveraging Python and Elastic.co API.
  • Reduced search runtime by 300% for 13,000+ documents hosted on Somm.aiโ€™s ElasticSearch deployment by fine-tuning the precision, relevance, and recall settings for 50+ document fields.
  • Automated the scraping of data for 80,000+ restaurants by harnessing the Yelp Fusion API in Python to obtain relevant restaurant information based on available parameters.
  • Saved 1,000+ hours and $20,000 in labor costs with maintainable and reusable Python scripts that automate routine restaurant data scraping as well as document ingestion to AWS.
  • Implemented Firebase realtime database and file hosting functionalities for 3 Somm.ai products to allow the seamless display of dynamically updating wine data of 900+ specially selected wines.
  • Utilized Firebase to enable secure authentication features (Google Sign-in, Email/Password Sign-in) for Somm.ai users, and to allow site analytics tracking for measuring crash data, user engagement and performance.
Product DevelopmentAutomation

Toolbx

Software Engineer Intern

Sep 2021 โ€“ Dec 2021 ยท 3 mos ยท Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • ๐Ÿ”จ Built internal tools to streamline existing processes and make accessing organization-wide metrics easier
  • Leveraged Salesforce and Algolia API knowledge to centralize the organizationโ€™s metrics processing for 174,000+ production products and 5,600+ Builder Claim Forms using SQL, SOQL, and Javascript in Retool.
  • Reduced the runtime of 10+ PostgreSQL queries by 65% for the searching and filtering of 23200+ Home Depot and 19100+ Rona products.
  • Spearheaded the development of the Quoting App used by Toolbxโ€™s Sales and Ops Team to streamline the handling of $50000+ in bulk orders per week.
  • Leveraged PandaDoc API knowledge to automate the PandaDoc contract creation process, saving 95+ minutes of manual data entry per order.
  • Employed Front API to automate email creation from existing templates, saving 10+ minutes of manual typing per customer interaction.
  • Showcased the functionality and practical applications for the 19 Retool apps I programmed during daily syncs and bi-weekly company-wide Tech Demos.
Web DevelopmentUI/UX Design

Year zero studios

Software Engineer Fellow

Sep 2021 โ€“ Dec 2021 ยท 3 mos

  • Competed in 4 monthly summits, Hackathons, and pitch competitions with other fellows passionate about technology and growth.
  • Won 1st prize at the Grapevine Labs Hackathon for Trackify, an app that uses the blockchain to reward and record users' goal attainment.
  • Awarded 1st Place Team at the Grapevine Fall Summit Hackathon for Foodcovery, an app that catalogues locations where edible food is available for volunteers and individuals to recover.
  • Attended a 3 day Software Development Bootcamp hosted by the Grapevine Collective with workplace workshops led by Polar CEO - Kunal Gupta.
  • Participated in 8 bi-weekly learning sessions with presentations by leading industry professionals and leaders.

Post-covid youth

Frontend Developer

Sep 2020 โ€“ Dec 2020 ยท 3 mos

  • Built the company websiteโ€™s functionality and UI/UX using HTML/CSS/Javascript to enhance usability and performance.
  • Collaborated with 20+ team members to communicate and cohesively design, prototype, and launch the site.
  • Spearheaded the deployment and maintenance of the organization's live site, digital content, and web presence.
  • Cultivated the capability and strategy of the website while investigating and addressing all technical issues.

Camp tamarack

2 roles

Orientation Camp Theme Director

Mar 2019 โ€“ Sep 2019 ยท 6 mos

  • Administered care and supervision for 150+ campers at a 96-hour orientation trip to welcome incoming freshmen.
  • Spearheaded the planning and execution of 12 Avengers-themed activities that fostered team-building and unity.
  • Mentored a team of 23 camp counselors to ensure the constant safety and active engagement of all campers with sing-along songs, a talent show, a balloon battle, storytelling around a campfire, and various themed camp activities
  • Helped campers with their transition into high school by answering questions and providing guidance

Orientation Camp Counsellor

Mar 2018 โ€“ Sep 2018 ยท 6 mos

Victoria park collegiate institute

Sound Technician

Sep 2018 โ€“ Mar 2020 ยท 1 yr 6 mos

  • Coordinated with 5 professional AV technicians to manage music and sound configurations for FRC competitions at VPCI.
  • Oversaw the operations of the soundboard, lighting console, and stage lights for over 15 school-organized events.
  • Collaborated with 90+ performers and organizers to resolve technical difficulties under time-sensitive situations.
  • Trained and supervised new stage crew members during school-organized events to communicate with radio receivers and correctly handle equipment in the sound booth of VPCI.

Education

University of Waterloo

Bachelor of Computer Science - BCS

Sep 2020 โ€“ Apr 2025

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

StartMIT '24 Cohort

Jan 2024 โ€“ Present

Y Combinator

AI Startup School

Jun 2025 โ€“ Present

International Baccalaureate

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