Will Gilbert
Retired
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolWill Gilbert is a retired software engineer and bioinformatics veteran with over four decades of experience bridging biology and software, known for evaluating and implementing open source technologies in both academic and industry settings. He brings deep Java expertise (J2SE/J2EE), strong OO design skills, and extensive experience with GWT/SmartGWT UIs, XML toolchains, Hibernate ORM, and diverse databases from Oracle to Neo4j and MongoDB. Will has led architecture and technical teams to modernize development practices—introducing unit testing, Maven/Subversion workflows, and rule-based workflow systems—and served as technical lead on clinical decision support and trial-matching projects. An avid learner and teacher, he continues to retrain in modern front-end stacks (React, Redux, ES6, Vue) and has translated his domain knowledge into cross-platform tools like the Java Sequence Analysis app and a macOS app rebuilt in Swift/SwitchUI now on the App Store. Unusually for a senior engineer, he also learned Gradle straight from its creator and balances technical rigor with hands-on hobbies like sports-pilot training and building a community baseball field.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Microbiology, B.S., Microbiology at University of FloridaPost Doctoral Fellow, Protein Crystallography, Post Doctoral Fellow, Protein Crystallography at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyA.A., Science, A.A., Science at Lake-Sumter Community CollegePh.D., Biochemisty & Molecular Biology, Ph.D., Biochemisty & Molecular Biology at University of Florida College of Medicine
English, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Latin, Chinese, Turkish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
beans9
expression-language9
business-rules9
gradle-plugin8
rule-engine8
java8
gradle7
dmn6
groovy6
jetty2
tomcat2
jooq2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
will-gilbert/GWT-HelloWorld
Jan 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
will-gilbert/SmartGWT-HelloWorld
Jan 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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