Wil Cooley
Identity And Access Management Architect, Computing Infrastructure Services at Portland State University, Office of Information Technology
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolWil Cooley is an Identity and Access Management architect and Python developer with 21 years of hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise Unix/Linux infrastructure at Portland State University. He moved from long-tenured senior sysadmin and UNIX team manager roles into IAM architecture, bringing deep expertise in Puppet, Splunk, Nagios, LDAP and campus-wide provisioning at scale for tens of thousands of users. A proven manager of DevOps teams, he has led major migrations (including Google Apps) and infrastructure refreshes while balancing budgeting and operational decision-making. His background spans security-conscious integrations with Active Directory, Kerberos and SAN-backed storage from both consulting and in-house perspectives. Based in Portland, he prefers local or remote roles and is notable for combining an academic math foundation with practical, decades-long troubleshooting instincts.
21 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Moving Image, Creating Writing, Mathematics, Moving Image, Creating Writing, Mathematics at College of Santa FeBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Portland State UniversityMathematics, Mathematics at Reed CollegeHigh school, Art focus, High school, Art focus at The Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts (LSMSA)
German, Latin, English
Stackoverflow
930reputation
105kreached
27answers
2questions
Github Skills (200)
testing10
metadata10
linter10
json10
data-science10
unit-testing10
utilities10
pytest10
python10
functional-testing10
recursive10
standard-library10
data-structures10
statistics10
queue10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
wcooley/puppet-nss_pam_ldapd
May 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:50 commits in 1 year 4 months
nsspampuppet-modulepuppet
wcooley/wcooley.github.io
Jan 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 8 years 10 months
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