Bo Willyard
Disaster Action Team Responder at American Red Cross CTX
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBo Willyard is a veteran software engineer and technical leader with 35+ years building complex systems across gaming, imaging, and cloud monitoring, currently leading R&D for cloud SaaS monitoring at SolarWinds. He has deep expertise in game engines, Class II/Bingo systems, embedded and Windows software, and has repeatedly driven cost-saving architectural innovations (including a virtual SAS port that saved ~$1M/year). A former VP and Chief Technical Architect at Multimedia Games, he designed web-playable slot engines, agent-less EGM monitoring tools, and low-code game prototyping environments. Earlier work includes bringing award-winning scanner hardware and imaging software to market for Nisca and leading OEM product development in Japan. Based in Austin, he balances hands-on engineering with mentoring and occasional volunteer disaster response work, and now describes himself on GitHub as a “retired developer having fun,” reflecting an ongoing curiosity for new technologies like WebGL and cloud platforms.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Oklahoma
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
librato9
statistics5
python1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
librato/librato-python-web
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Report key app statistics to the Librato Metrics service
Contributions:30 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 month
libratostatistics
librato/python-librato
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
A Python wrapper for the Librato Metrics API.
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
libratopython
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