Bradley Willis
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBradley Willis is a Senior Software Engineer based in Durham, NC with 18 years of experience building reliable backend systems and improving developer tooling. He has a decade at Microsoft followed by leadership-level engineering at GitHub, blending deep product code ownership with test automation and DevOps practices. His open-source contributions touch well-known projects in the Ruby and Puppet ecosystems—improving test harnesses, migrating core indirection logic in Puppet, and maintaining multi-language samples in GitHub Linguist—reflecting strong cross-language fluency. Bradley repeatedly focuses on improving test stability and automation, from rsync resilience in Beaker to unit and integration test suites for core platform code. He pairs systems-level thinking with practical scripting and configuration work (Perl, Puppet, Vagrant) to automate reproducible environments and PDF/reporting workflows. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors that increase maintainability while keeping large-scale services production-ready.
19 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (46)
unit-testing10
api-rest10
puppeteer10
c-language10
web-application10
puppet10
api-design10
scripting10
restful-api10
testing10
rspec10
test-framework10
rails10
acceptance-testing10
perl10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/beaker
Jun 2015 - Dec 2015
Puppet Acceptance Testing Harness
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:105 commits, 23 PRs, 89 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Bradley primarily contributed to improving the testing infrastructure and test coverage within the `voxpupuli/beaker` repository, a Puppet acceptance testing harness. They focused on enhancing existing test cases, adding new tests for core functionalities like credential loading and host helper methods, and addressing issues related to test stability, specifically with rsync operations. The user also worked on improving the handling of test failures, like those occurring in teardown blocks, ensuring a more robust testing process.
acceptance-testingpuppet
sodabrew/puppet-dashboard
May 2009 - Aug 2009
The Puppet Dashboard is a web interface providing node classification and reporting features for Puppet, an open source system configuration management tool
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:104 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Bradley primarily contributed to the development of a Ruby on Rails application, evidenced by the addition of models, migrations, and controller code for various resources like customers, apps, services, nodes, and deployments. Their work involved implementing RESTful controllers with associated views and integration tests. The user also integrated and utilized the WillPaginate gem for pagination functionality in the views. They demonstrated proficiency in building the core application structure and user interface components.
classificationconfiguration-managementpuppet
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