About

Will Highducheck is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer at Coinbase, with over 18 years of relevant experience in the field. He has a strong background in mathematics, statistics, probability, and combinatorics, which has helped him to excel in his areas of focus, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), cross-border transactions, public and private valuation techniques, accretion and dilution analyses, merger consequences, leveraged buyouts, equity financing, debt financing, hedge funds, funds of funds, futures and options, commodities, and equity indices. Will has a deep understanding of advanced Excel, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), web applications, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Linux, and other technologies. He is also proficient in natural language processing, web scraping, social media APIs (Facebook and Twitter), social advertising, MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Amazon OpsWorks, Chef, Opscode, Clojure, Ruby, Python, Abstract Algebra, Combinatorics, Computability, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Logic, Number Theory, and Statistical Modeling. Prior to joining Coinbase, Will worked as a Software Engineering and Technology Consultant for various companies, where he was responsible for backend architecture redesign using Java, Scala, Ruby, Python, and various SQL and distributed data stores. He also has extensive experience in devops, PostgreSQL database scaling, optimization, and design, log analysis and monitoring, and Amazon Elastic MapReduce. Will has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Mathematics from Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 2004. He was also Valedictorian of his ~400 member class at Penn Trafford High School. Will's technical expertise and experience make him a valuable asset to any organization.