William Roddenberry
Brooklyn,,NY
Summary
Experienced Full Stack Software Engineer and Engineering Manager with a tactical collaboration style and clear strategic vision. Led engineering efforts in taking qualification models from an experimental concept at Indeed to powering numerous job seeker facing features, and managed engineering team through transforming Indeed's search retrieval from manually managed rules to an ML driven approach. Experienced at collaborating with data scientists and proficient in a wide range of technologies.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineering Manager
Indeed
05.2022 - Current
- Architected and oversaw delivery of plan to revolutionize Search Matching from manually written rules to ML-driven methods, including a Vespa-based embeddings based retrieval system and models to generate rules to generate term search queries
- Defined scope for the new Matching Platform team by setting initial technical direction, coaching up-and-coming tech lead, and establishing collaborative team culture and Agile rituals
- Coached team of 6-10 engineers to improve their performance, including recovering from underperformance and multiple promotions
- Over the course of all positions held at Indeed, led hundreds of interviews, including whiteboards, system design, and programming exercises
Staff Software Engineer
Indeed
12.2021 - 05.2022
- Defined strategy for Ranking teams to adapt model training pipeline from Pay per Click to Pay per Apply business model
- Championed quality standards across several teams, kicked off an initiative to unify testing framework across micro-frontends
- Mentored 3 other engineers in continuing to expand the reach and depth of qualification models
Senior Software Engineer
Indeed
01.2020 - 12.2021
- Led the integration of qualification models into search ranking models, deboosting and demonetizing impressions for job seekers unlikely to be qualified, increasing application positive outcome rate by 9%
- Designed dynamic threshold platform to improve model thresholds selected for retrieval filters, eliminating costly toil for data scientists choosing the thresholds after each model iteration
- Collaborated with data scientists on various feature engineering efforts and scaled ML model deployments to evaluate over 1B impressions per day
- Trained team on SLO best practices and implemented them across all services
- Led quarterly Deployment and Operations Workshop to ramp up new joinees across Indeed on engineering tooling
Software Engineer II
Indeed
01.2019 - 01.2020
- Delivered first job seeker facing qualification interface in TypeScript, explaining qualifications and decreasing unqualified application rate by 5%
- Designed and led delivery of recommendation engine to suggest similar jobs a user was more qualified for when viewing a job where they were missing key qualifications. Resulted in 3% increase in applications with positive outcome
- Collaborated with the UX Platform team to deliver the company's first micro-frontend by writing business logic in Typescript, React and identifying issues with loading assets from Amazon S3
- Mentored a university intern through delivering impactful project over the course of 3 months
Software Engineer I
Indeed
07.2017 - 01.2020
- Built Java and MongoDB based microservice to return applicant pool data for all jobs on Indeed, processing 30M applications per day
- Designed and delivered heuristics platform allowing product scientists to deploy inexpensive qualification classifiers in underserved markets
Education
B.S. - Computer Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA06.2017
Skills
- Java
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- React
- AWS
- Vespa
- PyTorch
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- RabbitMQ
- Datadog
Timeline
Software Engineering Manager
Indeed
05.2022 - Current
Staff Software Engineer
Indeed
12.2021 - 05.2022
Senior Software Engineer
Indeed
01.2020 - 12.2021
Software Engineer II
Indeed
01.2019 - 01.2020
Software Engineer I
Indeed
07.2017 - 01.2020
B.S. - Computer Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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