About Me

I'm me.

A software engineer at Google on the Fonts team, where I work on font infrastructure and rendering in Rust. Before that, I spent nearly a decade wrangling big data on Search Analytics. Outside of work, I maintain a few Rust audio crates and tinker with programming language implementations.

Professional Work

Fonts @ Google

November 2025 - Present

I've been working on fonts. I'm a fonts guy now.

Gigantic Data, Huge @ Google

June 2016 - October 2025

I've worked on gigantic data within Google on the Search Analytics team. It was fun times as I evolved from a junior engineer to an effective senior tech lead. In my role I:

Stared at flamegraphs and dashboards to optimize and find headroom.
Re-architected dataflows for efficiency and simplicity.
Maintained great docs to facilitate onboarding and design discussions.
Lead teams to deliver over-complicated software.
Try to understand the real problems we are trying to solve.

Hobby Work

Audio

I'm a small time maintainer of a few Rust crates. They could use more care, but they work well enough.

Livi - A library for running LV2 audio plugins.
rust-jack - Rust bindings for the JACK audio API. Basically the go-to real-time audio/midi IO library.
wmidi - MIDI encoding and decoding library for Rust.

Programming Languages

I am working on Sizzle, a Scheme interpreter written in Zig. It is currently usable and well on its way to R7RS small compliance. At some point, I'll probably tear it down and recreate it with a cranelift backend for better performance.

Contact

	wmedrano
	@wmedrano
📧	will at wmedrano.dev