Will Dyson
System Administrator
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Dyson is a seasoned System Administrator and freelance developer with 26 years of experience building scalable web applications, embedded software, and low-level drivers. He advises clients as Interim CTO and through his consulting practice, blending hands-on development in Python, C/C++, and JavaScript with infrastructure deployment and Linux kernel driver work. His open-source contributions include stabilizing a FUSE-based BitLocker reader/writer, showing attention to robustness and edge-case recovery in storage systems. Based in Philadelphia, he pairs deep technical breadth—from geospatial web apps to hardware-software interaction—with practical client-facing delivery and training.
26 years of coding experience
BA, Computer Science, Physics, BA, Computer Science, Physics at Earlham College
Github Skills (6)
c1710
c1110
linux9
filesystem8
security7
fuse6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Aorimn/dislocker
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
FUSE driver to read/write Windows' BitLocker-ed volumes under Linux / Mac OSX
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on improving the `dislocker` project's stability and functionality. Their contributions included fixing a crash related to password handling in the user password access module, addressing volume opening failures by adding error messages and read-only fallbacks, and implementing warnings for disabling write access. They also improved the initialization of variables to ensure correct behavior with `readline` function.
bitlockerdriverlinuxwindows
UtrsSoftware/ATMLWorkBench
Jul 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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