Wil Chandler
Principal Software Engineer at Vibes
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolWil Chandler is a Principal Software Engineer in Chicago with 11 years of experience building and evolving API-driven, messaging, and SSO platforms at Vibes using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, AWS and Terraform. He thrives on collaborating with curious, practical teams to create and refactor robust systems that support targeted SMS and push campaigns at scale. A hands-on polyglot who has worked across full-stack web stacks and legacy-to-greenfield projects, he also contributes to open-source tooling—improving Ruby’s fake filesystem behavior and test coverage while fixing style and quality issues. With a liberal arts background in literary studies and formal web development training, he brings clear communication and pragmatic design to complex engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at Dev BootcampBachelor of Arts (B.A.), English - Literary Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English - Literary Studies at Hendrix College
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Github Skills (9)
ruby10
filesystem10
file-operations10
fileio10
test-automation10
testing10
json6
activemodelserializers6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fakefs/fakefs
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
A fake filesystem. Use it in your tests.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 3 days
Contributions summary:Wil contributed features to the `fakefs` project, focusing on implementing Ruby standard library methods related to file and directory operations, specifically `File.empty?`, `Dir.empty?`, and `FileTest.zero?`. They added test cases to verify the correct behavior of these methods within the fake file system. The user also addressed code style violations identified by RuboCop, ensuring code quality and adherence to project standards.
testingfilesystem
wilchandler/wilchandler.github.io
Feb 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:50 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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