Will Gant
Ruby On Rails Developer at Market Dojo
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Gant is a Ruby on Rails developer with nine years of engineering experience who transitioned from a journalism career into software in 2017. He combines strong backend Rails skills with cloud and DevOps expertise—AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Concourse, Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry—gained during multi-client engagements at EngineerBetter and now applied at Market Dojo. Will has contributed to the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller documentation, improving API endpoint clarity and role permission consistency, showing attention to detail in complex distributed systems. His background as a legal and court reporter gives him an unusual edge in writing precise technical documentation and translating ambiguous requirements into actionable specs. Based in England, he pairs practical scripting (Ruby, Bash, bits of Go/Python) with hands-on secrets and monitoring tooling to deliver reliable, auditable backend systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Law, Upper-Second Class Honours, Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Law, Upper-Second Class Honours at Aberystwyth UniversityPostgraduate Diploma, Newspaper Journalism, Distinction, Postgraduate Diploma, Newspaper Journalism, Distinction at Nottingham Trent UniversitySoftware development, Makers doesn't give grades, but I got a job ;-), Software development, Makers doesn't give grades, but I got a job ;-) at Makers
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
cloud-foundry10
documentation10
ruby10
api-design9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 reviews, 52 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the documentation of the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller. Their work focused on enhancing existing documentation, specifically for endpoints related to service brokers, service offerings, and routes. This included making the role permissions consistent, clarifying update destination, correcting the table, and addressing inconsistencies in the roles table. The user demonstrated the ability to identify and fix inconsistencies in documentation for backend APIs.
foundrycontrollercloud-foundrysap-hanaruby
will-gant/hello-world
Mar 2017 - Jul 2022
My repository...
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
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