Ash Wilson
Application Developer, Atom
Greenbelt, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAsh Wilson is a seasoned application developer with 19 years of experience building and hardening developer tools, cloud SDKs, and automation for enterprises and open-source ecosystems. Currently at GitHub working on Atom, he blends front-end UI work and robust test automation with deep back-end and DevOps expertise gained from contributions to high-profile projects like Ansible, Vagrant, Gophercloud, and GitLab Shell. He has a proven knack for improving reliability—adding TLS, image management, and state handling to Docker/Ansible modules and introducing case-insensitive header handling in an HTTP library—alongside polishing UX details in editor tooling. Based in Greenbelt, MD, Ash has supported cloud platforms at Rackspace and built software for the DoD, giving him a pragmatic perspective on security, observability, and maintainability. Notably, he balances visible product features with behind-the-scenes stability work, describing himself on GitHub as “Keeping @github stable one pull request at a time.”
19 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Penn State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (80)
atom-editor10
apim10
python10
testing10
command-line-interface10
http10
ruby10
automation10
build-automation10
appsettings10
ansible-galaxy10
javascript10
application-settings10
dockers10
uid10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rackspace/gophercloud
Aug 2014 - Jul 2015
A Go SDK for OpenStack. IN FEATURE FREEZE. See Issue #592
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:491 commits, 23 PRs, 17 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ash primarily focused on refactoring and restructuring the OpenStack Identity v3 client library. Their commits involved moving and organizing error definitions, result types, and request definitions into separate files for better code organization. They also worked on implementing the token creation and validation features, including testing for various authentication scenarios and API calls related to token management within the OpenStack environment.
goopenstack
atom/atom
Jun 2014 - Feb 2021
:atom: The hackable text editor
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 3 reviews, 853 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ash primarily contributed to the development of the Atom text editor, focusing on features related to user interface elements. Their work included implementing and testing improvements for overlay decorations, like handling CSS classes and respecting properties. The user also added various functionalities to the gutters, including support for custom line number gutters. Additionally, they updated documentation to reflect the changes made.
text-editoratomeditorjavascriptelectron
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