Will Dollman
Co-founder, Security Lead at Amp Code
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Dollman is a security-focused software engineer and co-founder with 13 years of experience building and hardening backend systems from Bristol, UK. He led security at Sourcegraph and now runs Amp Code, blending hands-on engineering with strategic security leadership. His background at Netcraft and contributions to notable open-source projects like Sourcegraph’s code-search stack show practical expertise in access token management, event logging, and host validation. Will favors pragmatic, test-driven improvements—adding unit-tested protections to critical token and Gitolite flows—demonstrating attention to both code quality and operational safety. He holds a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Bristol, bringing analytical rigor to security engineering. Colleagues know him for turning subtle attack surfaces into auditable, maintainable defenses.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Bristol
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
go10
security10
postgresql9
code-search8
code-intelligence8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sourcegraph/sourcegraph-public-snapshot
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Code AI platform with Code Search & Cody
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:211 reviews, 83 commits, 316 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on enhancing security within the repository, specifically addressing access token management. They added security event logging for access token deletions and other related events. The user implemented changes within the access token database interactions and added unit tests to ensure correct behavior. They also worked on validating hostname and user names as part of Gitolite host validation.
sourcegraphcode-generationrepo-type-maindeveloper-toolslsif-enabled
sourcegraph/s3proxy
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
Access other storage backends via the S3 API
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 3 months
apibackendsstorage-backendsopenstack-swiftaws-s3
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