William Nash
Head of Engineering at Chloris Geospatial
I build software for measuring the physical world. Today that means petabyte-scale satellite data and machine learning that map forest carbon across the planet. Before that, I spent six years in particle physics at UCLA and CERN, and two writing beam-control software for proton cancer therapy.
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2022 – now
Head of Engineering Chloris Geospatial, Boston
One of two engineers when I joined; built the data platform and ML pipeline behind Chloris's global, 25-year carbon-stock maps. Data Engineer → Senior → Principal → Head of Engineering.
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2016 – 2022
PhD, Experimental Particle Physics UCLA and CERN
Muon trigger algorithms for the CMS detector at the LHC, and a search for long-lived particles in quadrillions of proton collisions.
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2014 – 2016
Software Engineer, Physics and Algorithms Mevion Medical Systems
Real-time algorithms that steer the proton beam of a 250 MeV synchrocyclotron used to treat cancer.
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2010 – 2014
BA in Physics, cum laude Boston University
Writing
Elsewhere
mandelflow
A data-engineering scaling study: the Mandelbrot set rendered by 13 stages, from naive Python to GPU shaders and multi-pod Kubernetes.
talk-template
The remark + KaTeX template I use for technical talks.
Outside work
Climbing, snowboarding, travel photos, music, and a Magic: the Gathering cube.