Will Thompson Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Seattle, Washington, US

• Responsible for technical strategy, platform architecture, and engineering, collaborating closely with CTO and CEO to align engineering efforts with overall product strategy.
• Implemented fundamental anonymization and re-identification risk algorithms, including a novel method for high-performance k-member microaggregation
• Grew engineering team to 10 developers, built development workflow and shipping processes, manages team, provides mentorship, technical guidance, driving and maximizing team performance.
• Architected REST APIs for frontend applications and customer integrations, incorporating automated OpenAPI spec publication to reduce API update cycle times and support overhead, improving reliability, customer.
• Designed autoscaling distributed job system, optimizing data processing performance for large datasets across data warehouses and file stores with 100s of millions of records.

Seattle, Washington, US

Toronto, ON, CA

• Co-founded O'Connor's software engineering division, reporting to the Director of Technology. Responsible for O’Connor’s Online (now part of WestLaw) platform architecture and implementations, and built it into a.
• Technical lead for team of seven developers, provided technical direction and oversight, reviewed code, worked directly with team members to grow skills and improve team performance, and regularly contributed code to.
• Collaborated closely with legal and editorial departments to build complete platform-integrated solutions used by more than 50 editors. Built in-house systems like CMS, cross-reference/citation engine, and validation.
• Optimized application performance by developing internal analytics tools and integrating profiling into developer workflows, reducing time to task completion and server load, resulting in enhanced UX and reduced.
• Built search engine featuring advanced faceting, entity detection and query expansion, NLP-enhanced snippet and auto-suggestions, integrated with a dynamic RBAC system for customized content visibility control at.
• Built search-integrated user annotation system and API, including a migration system for automatically populating new editions with annotations from the previous edition.