Cheyenne Wills
Senior Support Engineer at Sine Nomine Associates
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorCheyenne Wills is a seasoned systems programmer and senior support engineer with decades of hands-on experience in z/VM, VM/CMS, and mainframe Linux environments, currently supporting developer labs for large printer hardware and software. Having maintained VM as the primary office environment for a major retailer and developed core components for automated tape library systems, Cheyenne blends deep performance tuning and I/O problem-determination skills with practical guest system support. A long-time SHARE contributor and past project manager and committee chair, they bring institutional knowledge of legacy and modern mainframe tooling, including REXX, zSeries assembly, CMS Pipelines, and multiple scripting languages. Notably, Cheyenne contributed to the Icon programming language ports and built a CMS multi-tasking facility that saw BITNET-II use—examples of a pragmatic hacker mindset applied to production-critical systems. Based in Boulder, Colorado, they combine historical perspective with current advisory work at Sine Nomine Associates to help teams bridge vintage and contemporary mainframe technologies.
10 years of coding experience
40 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (66)
multicore10
linux10
management10
sensu10
revit-api10
ebuild10
gentoo10
sublime-merge10
sublime-text9
podman9
pods9
filesystem9
visualization9
buildbot9
sublime9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CheyenneWills/adventofcode
Dec 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:87 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
CheyenneWills/ansible-openafs
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
Ansible roles for OpenAFS
Contributions:46 pushes, 25 branches in 3 years 11 months
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