Wil Clouser
Senior Engineering Manager at Mozilla Corporation
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWil Clouser is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Portland with 17 years of experience leading large-scale web platforms, currently accountable for addons.mozilla.org and marketplace.firefox.com at Mozilla. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with product leadership, having improved release and deployment tooling in high-profile open source projects like Mozilla Accounts. Earlier work includes deep contributions to localization tooling (translate/translate), where he fixed tricky conversion and testing issues, showing attention to legacy formats and interoperability. Wil’s background spans academia and government web systems through to consumer-facing platform leadership, grounded in a BS in Computer Science from Oregon State University. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces and resolves release plumbing and localization edge-cases before they hit users.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Oregon State University
Github Skills (17)
python10
i18n-node10
l20n10
bash10
release-management10
localization10
i18n-js10
i18next10
gettext10
x1010
git9
cicd9
file-conversion9
devops9
php8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/fxa
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Monorepo for Mozilla Accounts (formerly Firefox Accounts)
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 349 reviews, 195 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Wil primarily contributed to the release and deployment processes within the Mozilla Accounts (fxa) monorepo. They modified the release script to address versioning issues, changelog generation, and OS-specific date handling. The user also worked on the fxa-customs-server, including a sync operation. Additionally, there were minor changes related to settings and other internal components within the repository.
firefoxmonorepoaccounts
translate/translate
Dec 2008 - Mar 2010
Useful localization tools with Python API for building localization & translation systems
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Localization Specialist
Back-end Developer & Localization SpecialistContributions:9 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Wil primarily contributed to the `translate/translate` repository by fixing bugs and implementing features related to localization tools, particularly focusing on the TikiWiki file format. Their work included fixing `TypeError` bugs, resolving issues with the Psyco library in tests, and importing/modifying file conversion scripts. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of the project's codebase, addressing specific issues within the `translate/storage/tiki.py`, `translate/convert` and `translate/tools` modules.
l10napipythontranslationinternationalization
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