Alex Willmer
Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Willmer is a senior Python developer and Linux specialist with nearly two decades of hands-on experience across SaaS, DevOps, web, and virtualization projects. He has a strong track record in infrastructure and build automation—improving CI and build systems for high-profile projects like NumPy—and has contributed to prominent open-source projects including Ansible and Hypothesis. A seasoned speaker at PyCon UK and EuroPython, he blends practical security awareness with deep tooling knowledge, having ported CPython to CloudABI and added YubiKey U2F support for Python 3 during a self-directed sabbatical. Comfortable from low-level serialization formats to cloud automation, he pairs rigorous testing and CI improvements with pragmatic operational experience gained in both consultancy and public-sector roles. Based in Reading, England, he brings an uncommon combination of developer, DevOps and QA expertise that reliably improves maintainability and deployability of complex systems.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Computer Science and Cybernetics, Bsc, Computer Science and Cybernetics at University of Reading
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
property-based-testing10
unit-testing10
datetime10
kaitai-struct10
docker10
python10
django10
testing10
datetimes10
travis-ci10
dockers10
cicd10
numpy10
compatibility10
two-factor-authentication10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
mitogen-hq/mitogen
Sep 2017 - Nov 2022
Distributed self-replicating programs in Python
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:25 releases, 79 reviews, 337 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the project by addressing code quality and build/testing issues. They implemented fixes by adding missing imports, correcting variable usage, and updating deprecated function calls. They also made several commits to improve the continuous integration process and environment configuration and to use modern features to run the tests, such as upgrading VM images.
pythondevopsinfrastructureansible
ava-labs/avalanchego
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
Go implementation of an Avalanche node.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:26 reviews, 156 commits, 60 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Go implementation of an Avalanche node, focusing on adding comprehensive unit tests and improving the codebase's functionality. Their work included adding unit tests for clock, safe math functions, and packer functions. They also implemented a utility script using argparse for AWS operations, enhancing argument handling and feedback. These changes demonstrate a focus on code quality, testing, and improving the utility of the project's supporting scripts.
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