Will Bickford
Principal Software Engineer at EF Johnson Technologies, Inc.
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolWill Bickford is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building dependable, automated software systems across embedded, DevOps, and enterprise domains. Based in Lincoln, Nebraska, he brings deep expertise in automation, deployment, databases, cryptography, and debugging, and has progressed from hands-on design and defect fixes in embedded radio firmware to leading DevOps transformation and principal engineering work. He’s known for designing practical improvements to TLS and working with elliptic curve cryptography early in his career, pairing mathematical rigor with pragmatic system delivery. Will’s longtime focus on tooling, build automation, and documentation fuels repeatable, auditable releases, and his Github ambition—“building the Exocortex of 2130”—hints at a long-range interest in highly automated, intelligent software systems.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Johnson-Brock Jr Sr High SchoolBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Github Skills (34)
patch9
qt9
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cmd9
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visual-studio8
cmake7
cuda7
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wbic16/node-visualizer
Oct 2015 - Mar 2026
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 6 months
wbic16/wbic32
Aug 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:1 release, 92 commits, 20 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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