Will Faught
Software Engineer
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarWill Faught is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience based in California, fluent in Go, Python, Haskell, and Lisp and passionate about distributed computing and programming languages. He combines pragmatic production work with a tinkerer’s curiosity—contributing to notable open-source projects like ANTLR4 where he improved Go code quality and maintainability. Will excels at refactoring and cross-language tooling, favoring readable, consistent code and practical engineering trade-offs. His background suggests a strong backend focus and an ability to improve long-lived codebases while exploring language design and system-level concerns.
17 years of coding experience
English
Github Skills (6)
go10
refactoring10
text-parsing10
parsing10
antlr10
code-formatting10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
antlr/antlr4
May 2016 - Jan 2017
ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 60 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Will's contributions focused on refactoring and standardizing the Go code within the ANTLR4 project. They primarily addressed code formatting, renaming files to snake case, and improving code readability by removing underscores and changing the generic "this" variable. Their work involved modifications across various Go files, indicating a focus on code maintainability and consistency.
pythonstructured-textlanguage-recognitionparserjavascript
willfaught/go-guide
Apr 2017 - Mar 2024
Go best practices
Contributions:197 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
golanggo-best-practicesstylegoconventions
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