About

Will Ye is a full-stack software engineer with over 3 years of relevant experience. Currently, he works as a Software Engineer at Cohere, a company that aims to create the world's best customer interaction platform. As the first engineer at Cohere, Will has shipped entire features, such as the "Add more sessions" billing page, customer-initiated WebRTC calling and its widget, and the Sentry integration NPM module, using technologies such as React, Typescript, Koa, and PostgreSQL. He has also talked to customers through support requests and feedback calls, which directly increased the total revenue. Before joining Cohere, Will worked as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, where he was the first engineer in a new team that aimed to create an internal scheduling tool. He built core features such as the authentication backend and dashboard frontend from scratch, using technologies such as React, Redux, Next.js, and Typescript. He also managed AWS infrastructure and wrote deployment templates using AWS CDK, Lambda, and DynamoDB. He shipped an MVP that was projected to save $900k worth of time a year. Will's past experience also includes working as a Software Engineer Intern at Capital One, where he wrote internal APIs and testing tools using React, Typescript, Go, and Java. He independently built a Slack bot to prevent Yubikey "sneezes" using Node.js. Will holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Duke University, where he studied from 2016 to 2020. He is proficient in technologies such as AWS, Typescript, Integration, Javascript, Redux, Frontend, Backend, infra, test, NodeJS, and Java.