William
Graziano
Founder of Optimal Data. Computer Science at Ohio State. Right now, on the Walt Disney World Monorail team.
- Building
- Optimal Shopping, heading into its first pre-launch wave
- Working
- Walt Disney World Monorail, through January 7
- Studying
- Ohio State CS classes, alongside the Disney program
- Playing
- Golf, whenever I can
Running the Walt Disney World Monorail
I run opening and closing safety checks on high-voltage rail and power systems across every monorail station, and coordinate live with the control tower to keep a nonstop transit system safe and on schedule. I'm taking Ohio State classes at the same time.
Founded Optimal Data. Building Optimal Shopping.
Optimal Shopping compares grocery prices across 1,000+ store branches and finds the cheapest way to split your list across up to four stores. I built the data pipeline, the search, the web app and the mobile app. It's pre-launch, with the waitlist open.
- Bulk BarnMilk, Eggs, Chicken, Coffee, Rice
- Market HallSalmon
Started a football league, then built its software
I ran a 4-team, 40-player league for 3–4 seasons, played in it, and built the site everyone checked every week: schedules, standings, a live draft room, trades, and the stat tracking everyone loved.
Two jobs. Two promotions.
Computer Science at Ohio State
Graduating May 2028. Outside class, I volunteer with A Kid Again and I'm in the Cyber Security Club and the Claude Builder Club.
Started a coding program from a stack of flyers
I put up flyers, recruited students from across the school, wrote the C# lessons and taught 35 of them, from their first line of code to building a video game together.
// Week 1: hello, world
Console.WriteLine("Hello, 35 students!");
// Week 12: the game loop
while (game.IsRunning)
{
player.Move(input);
enemies.ForEach(e => e.Chase(player));
score += coinsCollected;
Draw();
}We wrote a language to drive the robot live
Everyone else pre-programmed their robot car's turns. My teammate and I built a tiny command language, steered through the maze in real time, and took the most points across every challenge.
Type a program, or drive with the buttons.
Commands: FWD 3, LEFT, RIGHT, separated by ;. Arrow keys work too after clicking the maze.
Recreated for this site. Originals linked below.
Featured by Texas Instruments, three times
My calculator programs were featured by TI: a New Year's Eve fireworks show in 2021, and animated emoji for World Emoji Day in 2022 and 2023.
- New Year’s Eve fireworksDec 31, 2021
- World Emoji DayJul 2022
- World Emoji DayJul 17, 2023
Where it started. End of the line.