Will Chertoff
Co-Founder at Clerk Chat
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolWill Chertoff is a seasoned software and DevOps leader with 11 years of experience building production-ready systems and AI-driven products from San Francisco. As co-founder of Clerk Chat and principal of consultancy Optima, he blends hands-on engineering, infrastructure expertise, and product-focused consulting to simplify complex software problems. His background spans senior DevOps roles at fintech and health tech firms and full-stack development work that drove record traffic for high-visibility sites. An active contributor to Ruby on Rails tooling—improving tests and setup flows for the Fae CMS—he pairs practical open-source fixes with a systems-level view. Trained as a mechanical engineer, he brings a quantitative, measurement-minded approach to software reliability and performance.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Mechanical Engineering at University of Kansas
Github Skills (8)
rspec10
rails10
rails-engines10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
content-management9
cms9
content-management-system9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wearefine/fae
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
CMS for Rails. For Reals.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on adding and modifying tests and addressing setup issues in the Fae CMS. They implemented tests to create an admin role during setup and custom asset scenarios. Furthermore, they corrected an issue in the setup process related to role creation, either by logging an error message or raising an exception depending on the commit. They also added features and fixes for custom assets functionality.
cmsruby-on-railsrailsrails-enginecfml
willchertoff/photo-sale
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:102 pushes, 28 branches in 1 month
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