Will Farrington
Principal Engineer at wfarr systems
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Farrington is a Principal Engineer with 18 years of experience specializing in web operations, SRE, and cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading runtime platform engineering at Heroku. He has driven large-scale migrations and platform improvements—from sharding Heroku’s Common Runtime and modernizing Private Spaces to building an opinionated Kubernetes-as-a-service on EKS—and has hands-on experience moving systems from legacy AMI/Chef models to immutable golden images. Will’s background spans high-growth infrastructure roles at Shopify, GitHub, DigitalOcean and MailChimp, and he contributes to notable open-source projects such as Shopify’s krane and Atom, reflecting both DevOps and full-stack fluency. Based in Atlanta, he blends strategic architecture with day-to-day operational craftsmanship and an appetite for practical automation that reduces toil across complex distributed systems.
18 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (41)
simulation10
git10
kubernetes10
puppeteer10
javascript10
c-language10
game-engine10
text-editor10
puppet10
game-dev10
simulations10
css10
editor10
emacs-lisp10
ruby10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
boxen/our-boxen
Oct 2012 - Dec 2013
Copy me for your team.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:135 commits, 5 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on configuring and maintaining the environment setup, with significant contributions to the `our-boxen` repository. Their commits demonstrate hands-on experience with system configuration through Puppet manifests, including setting up core modules like `git`, `hub`, and `nginx`. The user also made changes related to package management and dependency updates, demonstrating operational skills in this context. They made modifications to the site.pp and vendor/cache files, showcasing their involvement in the infrastructure setup.
simulationcraft/simc
Jun 2017 - Mar 2022
Simulationcraft engine/GUI
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 123 commits, 144 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the game simulation engine, modifying code related to specific in-game class modules, particularly the Shaman class. Their commits focused on implementing and adjusting features related to class-specific abilities and talents. Further commits involved modifying and updating the gear profiles for elemental shaman, including trinkets, to optimize performance.
c-plus-plussimulationguisimulationcraftreal-time-strategy
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