Will Barley
Director Of Forward Deployed Engineering at Gecko Robotics, Inc.
Waco, Texas, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolWill Barley is a technology leader, currently Director of Forward Deployed Engineering at Gecko Robotics, where he applies field-ready software and data-driven strategies to hard robotics challenges. He brings more than a decade of experience leading cross-functional teams and global client deployments, including founding Palantir's Middle East office and delivering enterprise-scale solutions for defense, intelligence, and government clients. He previously founded Thoron to provide drone-based crop health analytics for Florida citrus growers, and led software innovation at Essentium to guide printer software development and partnerships. Early in his career, he served as a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir and as a Senior Consultant at Control Group, blending hands-on engineering with client-facing business development. A Yale University BA in Computer Science and Arabic-language studies in Damascus complements his global mindset, and he is based in Waco, Texas, known for turning ambitious problems into scalable, impact-focused solutions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
fluency, Arabic Language, fluency, Arabic Language at Private Study in DamascusBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Yale University
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (74)
lambda9
azure-functions9
serverless9
aws9
markers9
aws-lambda9
serverless-framework9
serverless-applications8
fiducial-markers8
gdal8
gis8
aruco8
sam8
aws-dynamodb8
raster8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
socotra/liquid-playground
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:11 releases, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
bu-ra3y/spa-with-google-auth
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.