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wkm

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About wkm

I'm an engineering lead at Square's NYC office. Previously, I helped scale Tumblr by building distributed systems and I developed some of the parsing technology and data stores in Wolfram|Alpha.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #9471464

    Square, New York City (NYC) Square! In 2013 we opened an office in NYC in SoHo. We've grown to nearly a hundred people across all disciplines and are working on building two of the…

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    Comment #9303478

    Square, New York City (NYC) Square! In 2013 we opened an office in NYC in SoHo. We've grown to nearly a hundred people across all disciplines and are working on building two of the…

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    Comment #8214335

    Mathematica/Wolfram Language enables this with quite a bit of success, but it's by no means a silver bullet. The reality is this does not change semantics. http://www.wolfram.com/l…

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    Comment #7301859

    How is this different than what would happen to a manned truck?

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    Comment #6653533

    Square — NYC https://squareup.com/ --- Square! In October 2012, we acquired the design firm 80/20 and have had New York based colleagues for some time now. Our logical next step wa…