# Bill Prin

> AI @ Workato | Ex-Google

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/billprin

www.billprin.com | www.aiengineering.report 

Former Google and Pinterest engineer building AI-powered applications, independent software products, and technical content. After 15+ years architecting large-scale systems, I'm now applying that expertise to AI, full-stack development, and product engineering.

Writing the AI Engineering Report at aiengineering.report - a newsletter about practical AI applications covering LLM integration, AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code), MCP servers, vector databases, and modern development workflows, and associated YouTube at youtube.com/@bill_prin. Exploring topics like semantic search, vector DBs, RAG, context engineering ,prompt engineering, and AI evals.

Built and monetized Live Poker Theory (www.livepokertheory.com) , a full-stack SaaS with 8k+ users, 300 weekly active users, spanning React web app, React Native mobile apps, Firebase backend, PostHog analytics and RevenueCat payments - demonstrating complete product lifecycle from architecture to revenue including extensive content marketing and SEO, as well as product work such as cohort retention analysis.


Languages: Typescript, Python, 
AI: LLMs, (Claude, GPT-5), Claude Code, MCP,  Prompt Engineering, AI-assisted development tools, agentic coding, context engineering 
Infrastructure:  AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Jenkins, Buildkite
Data: SQL ( PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL, Kafka, Jupyter, Pandas, ElasticSearch / Kibana / Logstash, Bigtable / HBase, Hadoop, scikit-learn (sklearn), Spark, BigQuery
Web React, NextJS, React Native / Expo, TailwindCSS, shadcn, DaisyUI,Django, HTML, CSS, Javascript,ReactJS, REST/HTTP API design, Linux (programming, administration, and debugging), Firebase

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Workato
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
MCP and agents

### Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Python developer experience
Re-architected Python packaging infrastructure to fix a critical security vulnerability exploited by a security researcher (
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/addressing-python-dependency-confusion-at-pinterest-e0a0609c8e9). This involved sunsetting custom infrastructure in favor of Artifactory, and rolling out infrastructure changes across 1000+ engineers
Defined Python infrastructure strategy through comprehensive analysis of million+ line monorepo used by 1000+ engineers, synthesizing feedback from 30+ technical leads across 20 teams into an actionable roadmap
Key Technologies: Python , pip-tools, Bazel, AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins)

### Software Engineer @ Thumbtack
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Tech lead of marketing pipelines in Growth Engineering. Using Airflow / SQL / Spark to optimize ad spend on Google Ads, Facebook Ads, etc

### Software Engineer @ Bastille
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco
Building RF data pipelines in Python on Kafka and AWS. Led development of "miniaturized" version of product on Docker Compose, originally for testing purposes, that became a smaller entry point proudct that led to $1Mil+ in sales:

https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/2020/12/11/news-release-st-svip-continues-partnership-atlanta-based-start-up

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco
2018: Software Engineer for Mobile Productivity, building data pipeilines in Go for observability of build and test analytics of internal Android developers
2015-2017: Developer Relations  for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), building sample apps and guides, with a focus on Kubernetes, Cloud Metrics, Cloud Logging, Cloud Bigtable (HBase) and Django Developers:

Initial creator of : https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples (now 6.7k stars on Github)
Blogging on Kubernetes: https://medium.com/google-cloud/deploying-django-postgres-redis-containers-to-kubernetes-9ee28e7a146

### Software Engineer @ Knewton
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | New York, New York
Java full-stack development on AWS for consumer ed-tech platform

### Software Engineer @ Selerity
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013
Low latency C++ and  network protocol development for media scraping tool serving HFT.Building infrastructure on AWS and co-located data centers.

### Software Engineer @ General Dynamics Robotic Systems
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Westminster, Maryland, United States
C++ development, real-time video for robotics.


## Education
### BS in Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/waprin
- Portfolio: https://www.aiengineering.report
- Portfolio: https://www.billprin.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-11