# William Hardison

> Backend Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Backend Software Engineer @ SPAN
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Backend Software Engineer Intern @ SPAN
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
•	Designed and implemented high-performance real-time data pipelines, processing thousands of records per second - Kotlin, Apache Flink, AWS Timestream, Snowflake, Apache Kafka
•	Optimized data pipelines to batch records, achieving a ~98% reduction in cost per record and a ~99.8% decrease in upload time

### Data Analyst @ Mitchel Lab
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Middletown, Connecticut, United States
Developed custom software in Python and Matlab to format and analyze time-lapse video data for object tracking, resulting in compelling data visualizations.

### Biological Data Intern @ USDA ARS Soybase
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Ames, Iowa, United States
• Developed a data pipeline to automate data retrieval and form filing – Python, YML
• Researched and presented a project comparing genetic datasets of legume species to
determine gene relationships

### Research Intern @ PharmGKB
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Stanford, California, United States
•	Developed data solutions in Java and Python, including collecting, formatting, and storing API data, and created visualizations for a critical grant proposal
•	Awarded travel stipend for Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), Kona, Hawaii - 2023
•	Presented research poster at PSB for 100+ attendees - 2023


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Biology, Art Studio, and Informatics
Wesleyan University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/william-o-hardison
- GitHub: https://github.com/willhardison

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Last updated: 2026-04-11