Will Buck
Lead Engineer at HealthSherpa
Chaska, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Buck is a Lead Engineer with 15 years of experience building backend and front-end systems using Kotlin, Groovy (Grails/Micronaut/Spring Boot), and Angular, currently leading engineering at HealthSherpa. He blends hands-on development, TDD, and CI practices with people leadership from prior roles as an Engineering Manager at Rocket Travel and senior consultant work. An active open-source contributor, he’s contributed Kotlin and Groovy improvements to the Micronaut core examples, focusing on idiomatic code and clearer configuration builders. Based in Minnesota, he’s equally at home interviewing and mentoring engineers as he is shipping production services for healthcare and travel domains. Outside work he’s a former local Angular organizer and avid teacher who balances code with dodgeball and family life.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science East Asian Studies, B.S. Computer Science East Asian Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (21)
kotlin10
groovy10
configuration-management10
micronaut10
java10
javas10
configuration-file10
configurations10
grails9
cloud-native8
testing8
microservices-application7
microservices7
serverless6
save6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
micronaut-projects/micronaut-core
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
Micronaut Application Framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:97 commits, 13 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the Micronaut core framework, adding and modifying examples related to configuration builders. These changes included migrating Groovy examples to snippets, adding Kotlin implementations, and addressing issues with the configuration builder visitor. Furthermore, the user fixed whitespace and made adjustments for more idiomatic Kotlin, focusing on improving code clarity and example functionality.
groovyserverlessmicronautframeworkkotlin
willbuck/midwestjs-2015-protractor
Jun 2015 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 68 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 6 months
testingpresentationprotractor
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