Randy Will
Senior Solutions Architect, Healthcare And Life Sciences at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Belknap, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRandy Will is a Senior Solutions Architect with 12+ years building cloud, security, and support organizations for healthcare and life sciences customers, currently helping AWS customers apply technology to accelerate research and patient outcomes. He blends deep hands-on expertise in AWS, Linux, embedded systems and information security with a strong track record of building teams and processes—having launched AWS California Enterprise Support sites, built Evident.io’s Support org, and established Bio‑Rad’s Cloud Center of Excellence. Randy’s background as a PCI QSA and his history leading compliance and PA‑DSS engagements give him a pragmatic, risk‑aware approach to architecture and governance. He contributes to open-source embedded projects like Smoothieware, improving CNC spindle control and safety—an indicator of his hardware-level curiosity and maker mentality. Known for translating messy operational problems into automated, scalable solutions, he enjoys mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional change. Based in Illinois with a biomedical engineering degree, he pairs domain knowledge in life sciences with the operational rigor needed to move proofs of concept into production.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Biomedical Engineering, BS, Biomedical Engineering at Marquette University
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Github Skills (12)
control-systems10
cnc10
embedded10
c-language10
gcode10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
pwm10
pid-control9
firmware9
hardware-interface8
modbus6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Smoothieware/Smoothieware
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Modular, opensource, high performance G-code interpreter and CNC controller written in Object-Oriented C++
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 12 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Randy primarily contributed to the "smoothieware" project, a G-code interpreter and CNC controller. Their work focused on improving the spindle control functionality. This included removing redundant code, aligning function calls, and adding features for controlling spindle behavior, such as a maximum PWM setting and halting the spindle on a HALT state for safety. They also refactored event registrations and enhanced the reporting of spindle RPM and PWM values.
cnc-controllercppgcodeinterpreter
cilynx/rtl88x2BU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.4.4_25643.20171212_COEX20171012-5044
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
rtl88x2bu driver updated for modern kernels.
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 17 days
driver
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