Will Fantom
DevOps Engineer at Lancaster University
Lancaster, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWill Fantom is a DevOps Engineer and PhD researcher in computer networking with eight years’ experience building cloud-native telemetry and testing systems that help network operators adopt software-driven infrastructure. Based in Lancaster and currently at Arm while completing a PhD at Lancaster University, he designs and implements network microservice architectures using unikernels, containers and micro-VMs to enable responsive scaling and developer-friendly observability. His work includes an active network telemetry system and a network emulation-as-a-service platform for integration testing of network functions, backed by publications and open-source repos. Equally at home in Go and Python, he ships practical command-line tools for home server management that have attracted attention on GitHub, and brings a researcher’s rigor to production-grade DevOps applied to next-generation networks.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Aquinas CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science (Networking), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science (Networking) at Lancaster University
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Github Skills (112)
python10
simulator10
home-assistant-integration10
mininet10
linux10
rapid10
rapid-prototyping10
garbage10
network-automation10
prototyping10
sdn10
openflow10
ieee9
jscript9
authorized-keys9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
WillFantom/.files
May 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 30 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 5 months
WillFantom/devcontainer-go
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Golang devcontainer
Contributions:30 PRs, 33 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 11 months
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