Wil Linssen
Software Engineer at HP
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWil Linssen is a versatile software engineer with 13 years of experience building security-focused products, currently contributing to HP Wolf after HP’s acquisition of Bromium. His career spans hands-on roles from founding and running web design firms to leading production teams and lecturing on web programming, giving him a rare blend of entrepreneurial, technical, and mentoring experience. At Bromium and HP he has focused on low-level, security-conscious engineering, bringing practical expertise in LAMP-era web systems through to modern endpoint isolation work. Based in Cambridge, he combines a strong academic foundation (1st Class Honours in Multimedia) with a history of recruiting, training, and introducing new technologies into teams. Notably, he has repeatedly moved between solo freelance work and larger product teams, demonstrating adaptability across project scale and lifecycle.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
1st Class Honours, Multimedia, 1st Class Honours, Multimedia at Nottingham Trent University
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Github Skills (82)
svg10
iso10
country-flags10
licensing10
flags10
iframe10
echarts9
django9
charts9
browser9
data-visualization9
charting9
python9
rest-api9
visualization9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
linssen/django-tastypie-backbone-todo-tutorial
Mar 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:36 commits, 1 push in 2 years
apitodosnodejsbackbone
linssen/vagrant-puppet-nginx-uwsgi-flask
Oct 2013 - Jul 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
nginxvagrantpuppetansibleflask
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