# Will Tappen

> Software Engineer at Google

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/willtappen

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Present
Ensuring sensitive data stays where it belongs.

### Co-Founder @ Truffle Health
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Spun out of grad school after winning pre-seed investment from Cornell University, Truffle Health helps people navigate healthcare costs.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Found & implemented an optimization in Google Search's serving architecture that saves Google $300,000 in server costs per year.

### Software Engineering Intern @ ReadySet Technology, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Primarily designed and wrote the client for version 1 of Readyset's database caching product, reducing friction for customers by matching the interfaces of existing database clients they were already using.

### Instructor @ Juni Learning
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Taught students aged 11-18 what I know about computers!

### Software Engineering Intern @ Pure Storage
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Designed and implemented a zero-downtime, over-the-air upgrade of a critical service running on customers' datacenter arrays.

### Software Engineering Intern @ MathWorks
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Natick, MA
Identified multiple bugs in PDF, CDF, and Inverse CDF MATLAB functions in the statistics toolbox due to implicit expansion.

Developed and deployed a tool using MATLAB Web Apps to view statistics about bug reporting within the company.

Developed a tool to automatically update the hyperlinks in over 10,000 internal company documents, assisting the migration of company documents to the cloud.

Wrote a test component to test functionality of compiled MATLAB apps that use functionality from the statistics toolbox and the optimization toolbox.

### Network Operations Center Engineer @ NWN Corporation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Designed and developed a python application to correct large data sets related to the monitoring of networking devices. Project entailed parsing CSV files containing names, IP addresses, serial numbers, etc. of over 5,000 devices monitored by NWN and intelligently updating incorrect data.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Cornell University

### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science
Cornell Tech


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31