# Will Bigelow

> Fullstack Senior Software Engineer at Meta

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/willbigelow

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Present
Full-stack software engineer on the Dating team, building new ways to discover matches for millions of users.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Meta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area
Worked on the Developer Experience team, supporting developers who build apps on the facebook platform
- Performed fullstack development to increase user engagement and response to important updates
- Ran experiments to gauge the effectiveness of new components among the public
- Designed and implemented resources to connect cross-functional team members to the engineers, improving team cohesiveness surrounding user engagement.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Airbnb
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Created an application to create restrictions of abilities on users in order to test user capability restriction flows
- Developed a react frontend and presentation service API
- Enabled developers and QAs to test vital safety flows in order to ensure that users are protected on the platform

### SDE Intern @ Amazon Web Services
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, WA
Intern on the S3 Lifecycle Deletions team.
- Developed tools to handle wildly varying access patterns and unprecedented load in the range of billions of transactions by customers.
- Created an application used to predict the number of transactions required for deletion workflows on a daily basis.
- Automatically suggested hosts to add to the fleet in order to maximize efficiency and cost.
- Developed an application to discover the maximum throughput obtainable by hosts.

### Teaching Assistant, Web Programming @ University of Washington
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Taught an introductory class on web development.
- Taught HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL to a class of 23 students. Topics included frontend website
development and API usage with AJAX plus creation with PHP.
- Held office hours and tutored nearly one hundred students in one on one sessions to improve comprehension.

### SDE Intern @ Informatica
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
Intern on the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services team.
- Worked on a multi-threaded cloud project which implemented synchronous shutdown into multiple features to avoid loss of requests
- Improved Docker development environments in order to reduce high memory consumption


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Washington
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/william-bigelow

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Last updated: 2026-03-22