Ashley Willis
Senior Systems Engineer at Synacor
Buffalo, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAshley Willis is a Senior Systems Engineer and MongoDB Certified Developer with 14 years of experience designing migration tooling and operating infrastructure for large-scale email and calendaring systems. At Synacor she builds and runs pipelines that migrate hundreds of thousands to millions of accounts into Zimbra, while also administering the MongoDB clusters that back those tools. An expert Perl developer who codes across JavaScript, Bash, Ruby, and Python, she is an active open-source contributor—having worked on the popular Thunderbird/K-9 Mail Android client to improve composition, sorting, and PGP integration. Her background in cognitive science and computer science informs a methodical, reverse-engineering approach to ambiguous specifications and protocol implementation. A Buffalo-based cyclist who commutes 16 miles daily through harsh winters, she brings the same persistence and attention to real-world constraints to production systems.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (15)
e-mail10
javas10
communications10
sendmail10
android10
java10
send-email10
homebrew9
ui-design8
eclipse6
rate-limiting6
broadcast-receiver6
adb6
defaults6
google-admin-sdk6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
thunderbird/thunderbird-android
Oct 2011 - Jul 2014
Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail)
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:97 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ashley primarily contributed to the Thunderbird for Android project, focusing on implementing and modifying core email client features. They added an option to show the next message after deleting the current one, fixed issues with saving drafts, and improved the handling of email composition. Additionally, the user worked on integrating security features related to PGP encryption, and refactored the sorting functionality in the app.
mailemailcommunicationandroidmozilla
mbusigin/disbatch
May 2013 - Apr 2018
Contributions:420 commits, 52 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years
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