# Will Powelson

> AI @ Airtable

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

Software Engineer. I like to work with great people shipping great, useful products. I enjoy sitting at the intersection of product, design, and engineering - helping teams and organizations figure out what to ship and how.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Airtable
Jan 2022 – Present
Uber TL for 40 enginers building the next generation of agentic products at Airtable.

Previously TL for field agents, took product 0-1. Built most of our AI async serving architecture like semantic search.

### Software Engineer @ Toyota Research Institute
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View
Worked with the Advanced Materials and Discovery division and partner labs at Stanford, MIT, SLAC, and others on some fun projects:
- Taking battery test times from months to days via AI predictions, automated test writing, and more
- Higher throughput polymer synthesis through predictive modeling and easier data exploration
- Other stuff I can't talk about

Learned a lot about batteries, writing compilers, operating data pipelines, how to run a good user study, creating useful and performant data visualization tools for large (tB) datasets

### Cofounder @ Bluejay Math
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Startup I worked on with a good friend trying to crack automating most of 1-1 math tutoring (but not teaching, the former is easier). Based on field tests we think we cracked the basic student-tutor loop but found we needed more years of productization work than we had runway. I hope to come back to this someday if the idea doesn't get scooped. Had a really neat custom computer algebra system we wrote that heavily abused v8 to keep performance real time (turns out kids also hate slow UIs).

### Software Engineer @ U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
-Designed and prototyped low cost solution to remote logging of environmental data
-Programmed device to interface with 3rd party sensors and sync
-Created dashboard to monitor incoming sensors and view incoming data

### Educator @ Self Employed
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Corte Madera
My life before software: ran a tutoring business, after school programs, wrote curriculum, summer camps. Lots of fun stuff.


## Education
### Mathematics
University of California, Santa Cruz


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11