Will Decker

Will Decker

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Head of Engineering
New York, United States

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  • BrightHire
    Head of Engineering
    BrightHire
    Jun 2020 - Current (6 years 4 months)
  • Compass
    Engineering Manager
    Compass
    May 2019 - Jun 2020 (1 year 2 months)
  • Bread
    Engineering Manager
    Bread
    Apr 2018 - May 2019 (1 year 2 months)
  • meshify
    Director of Engineering
    meshify
    Oct 2015 - Mar 2018 (2 years 6 months)
    Meshify provides an IOT platform and services to enable customers to easily deliver complex hardware solutions. As Director of Engineering I lead a growing team of engineers that works on building new features and improving the platform.

    Significant projects under my leadership have included:
    • Increased platform's message processing performance by 1700x by migrating from Node.js to Go, optimizing database access and indexing, batching calls to AWS SQS, and leveraging Go’s concurrency model in the new design.
    • Improved deployments from four hours to five minutes by using AWS Elastic Beanstalk with TeamCity scripts, and made further deployment improvements on the rewritten IoT platform leading to on-demand deploys with
  • W
    Chief Technology Officer
    Worldwide Machinery
    Oct 2015 - Oct 2016 (1 year 1 month)
    Worldwide Machinery offers heavy machinery rentals. I was recruited by the executive team to join Worldwide as CTO and lead internal IT and internal software development initiatives.

    During my year there we modernized a proprietary .NET inventory system by reducing technical debt, enabled one-click continuous (zero-downtime) deployments in under 30 seconds, and I led a design and development of a mobile web app using Express and ReactJS. I also recruited and developed a team of four engineers.
  • Texas Instruments
    Test Engineer
    Texas Instruments
    Aug 2013 - Jun 2014 (11 months)
    At TI I wrote an iOS app that communicated with haptic chips over Bluetooth, and the app was used to demonstrate uses for haptic microchips to customers faster and more efficiently. I also worked on test programs for haptic chips to decrease test time, efficiency, and reliability, and investigated yield loss patterns in the silicon fabrication plant.
  • Boeing
    Intern - Command and Data Hardware
    Boeing
    Jun 2012 - Aug 2012 (3 months)
  • C
    Quality Assurance Intern
    Cooper Lighting Safety
    Jun 2011 - Aug 2011 (3 months)
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  • Georgia Institute of Technology
    Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Jan 2009 - Jan 2013 (4 years 1 month)
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