# Will Engler

> Senior Software Engineer - AI for Science at UChicago & Argonne National Lab

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/willengler

Software engineer

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ University of Chicago
Jan 2023 – Present
AI and data infrastructure for science at Globus Labs.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Compass
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Fullstack role | JavaScript, Python

Jack-of-all-trades product engineering. I worked closely with product and design to plan, ship, and support new features while also nurturing junior engineering talent. 

Rapidly onboarded onto an existing team to launch a Market Insights tool. (JS, Python, Postgres, Airflow) I was then a key player in delivering an Offers Management product that tied together several disparate systems, requiring extensive cross-team collaboration and painstaking code archaeology. (JS, Python, Postgres, Flask)

### Software Engineer @ Nava
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Backend role | Go, AWS, Python, Terraform

Infrastructure automation for the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Helped plan an effort to drive down time to provision AWS environments from one month to one day. To unlock the larger effort, designed & implemented a Go service to automate user administration for the agency's legacy VPN. Coordinated across several government stakeholders and contractor teams.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Axon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
Frontend-focused fullstack role | JS (React + Redux), Scala, Go. Built GIS experiences on both Mapbox and ESRI

Built and owned the UI for Axon Respond, a product that aggregates real-time location, video, and notifications from Axon body cameras. Made significant contributions to backend architecture for WebRTC streaming and real time data processing. Mentored other engineers as a cross-organization UI code quality maintainer.

### Software Engineer @ Sourceress (YC S17)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Data engineering role | Python (Django, Pandas, Scikit-learn), JS (React), AWS, Postgres

Maintained data pipeline that combined output from models, hand-coded heuristics, and human labels to generate the best possible predictions for our recruiting product. Also contributed to internal web application used by labelers.

### Software Engineer @ Argonne National Laboratory
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Chicago Area
Fullstack role | Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy, Jupyter), JS (Ember), AWS, Postres/PostGIS

Owned backend, frontend, and ops for Plenar.io, an alternative open data portal for cities' spatial and real-time data. Recruited new team members and mentored junior engineers. Owned frontend and a lot of ops for coleridgeinitiative.org, a data portal for enabling research on sensitive government data.

Honors:
- Invited to 2016 White House Open Data Roundtable to share lessons learned with the Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Collaborated with government agencies at many levels, from local (Chicago), federal (DARPA), to international (Bristol and Newcastle, UK)

### Software Engineering Co-op @ Rockwell Automation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
Co-op/Intern | C++ 

Performed character-building gruntwork on Rockwell's industrial automation IDE. Improved test suite, fixed bugs, etc.


## Education
### Master of Business Administration - MBA
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Jan 2025 – Jan 2027

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/will-engler-82190b140
- Website: https://willengler.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22