Will Fleming is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience building developer-facing and consumer software, currently leading architecture and delivery at CustomMade in New York. He brings deep hands-on expertise across Ruby/Rails, Objective-C/Cocoa, JavaScript, and iOS, shaped by roles from individual contributor to engineering manager at Code Climate. Will blends a designer’s sensibility—stemming from a past as a daily newspaper design editor—with strong engineering rigor to craft tools and apps that simplify and delight users. He contributes to open-source quality tooling (notably improving the qlty CLI’s testing, config upgrade, and dependency handling) and focuses on maintainability and developer experience. Collected experience at product-focused companies and a background at Apple inform his pragmatic, user-centered approach to complex systems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Science, BS Information Science at Cornell University
Universal code quality CLI: Linting, formatting, security scanning, and metrics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:44 releases, 213 commits, 312 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Will focused on improving the code quality and maintainability of the "qlty" CLI tool. They addressed issues in the testing framework and added functionality to initialize and upgrade configuration files. Key contributions include refactoring code and implementing features such as the `--upgrade` flag for classic config upgrades. The user also made improvements to the dependency management of the project.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
python-codemetricscode-metricspython
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