Bill Warshaw Email & Phone Number

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Building a DatabaseWorked on a team building an in-house HTAP database to enable customers to store data flexibly without needing to understand proper data modeling practices.Containerization / KubernetesContainerized product services and bootstrapped an Operator to run Appian as a Kubernetes-native resource, in order to move the Appian platform to a cloud-native deployment model.Over the summer, served as manager for two interns on my team. Conducted weekly 1-1s and monthly reviews. Actively worked with them to help them grow and ensure they had an amazing internship.Internal R&D Team Nine-month rotation as senior engineer investigating emerging technologies and prototyping integrations with the Appian platform. Reported directly to VP of Engineering.Received input from a variety of stakeholders, translated vague ideas into actionable projects, executed, and gave demos to stakeholders including C-level executives.Analytics Pipeline with PrestoOn my own time, built a secure ETL pipeline running in Kubernetes to index semi-structured data from our Cloud offering into S3 and query it efficiently with Presto.Enabled a wide variety of queries which were impossible with existing reporting infrastructure.PostgreSQL SupportOn my own time, added full support for running Appian on PostgreSQL, a request from many customers.Won a company-wide Impact Award for this effort.Department Productivity EnhancementsOn my own time, built a variety of tools to improve aspects of developer experience

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Clustering Layer for In-house DatabaseHelped build fault-tolerant replication layer for proprietary database, using Kafka and Zookeeper.Enabled Appian to run in a distributed configuration with no data loss and minimal unplanned downtime.Built a chaos testing tool to test resiliency, and extended it to cover the entire Appian platform.Log Aggregation Intern TeamLed team of 6 interns and one junior SE to build log aggregation service to scrape platform logs and index them into ElasticSearch. Conducted weekly 1-1s and monthly performance reviews.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Platform IntegrationsBuilt a feature to allow designers to create custom REST APIs on the platform using a low-code designer.Productized integration with LDAP and SAML authentication providers. Used by most customers.Refactored part of department testing infrastructure, cut time to run longest jobs by 50%.

College Park, Md, Us

TA for CMSC424, Database Design.Responsible for grading most course assignments. Provided all manner of assistance during a consistently-scheduled set of weekly office hours.

Performed a wide variety of tasks for technical staff in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at UMD. Assignments included renovating offices, machining metal components, moving heavy objects, helping TAs find supplies for lab sections and assembling prototypes for educational projects.

Fairfax Station, Us

Worked with a team developing a social media exploitation and analysis platform. Added several features to the platform which incorporated a wide variety of frameworks including Apache Shiro, Storm, Kafka, ExtJS, Accumulo and MySQL.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science