Will Glynn
Vice President Of Technology at Aperture Laboratories
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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RockstarWill Glynn is a seasoned technology executive with 15 years of hands-on engineering experience, currently serving as Vice President of Technology at Lensrentals.com in the Greater Chicago area. He blends leadership of product and engineering with deep systems-level expertise, contributing to open-source projects across Go, Rust, C, and Ruby that demonstrate comfort from embedded debug tooling to distributed certificate management. Notable contributions include improving Let's Encrypt tooling in the popular lego client, enhancing embedded target support in probe-rs for Infineon microcontrollers, and advancing binary parsing and ECS storage in Rust libraries. Will’s background shows a pattern of refactoring for maintainability, adding pragmatic features (like CSR-based certificate generation), and improving developer UX through clearer docs and tooling. He’s equally comfortable diving into hardware reset sequences as he is optimizing HTTP parsing or accounting engines, which makes him a rare leader who still ships critical code. Based in the U.S., he brings both operational leadership and continuing low-level engineering curiosity to complex technical challenges.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (55)
ec10
debugging10
debug10
c-language10
cert10
domain-name10
computer-forensics10
probe10
ip10
rspec10
rs10
rails10
cross-platform10
amazon-web-services10
binarydiff10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
amethyst/specs
Jul 2017 - Sep 2019
Specs - Parallel ECS
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 21 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Will contributed significantly to the `specs` repository, a parallel ECS framework written in Rust. Their work focused on adding support for a new storage type, Rudy, including implementing the `RudyStorage` and integrating it into the existing storage architecture. They also addressed code quality by removing a dependency on the `mopa` crate. Furthermore, the user added support for slice access and modified the internal data structures of existing storage types.
ecsparallelrustparallel-ecsspecs
m4b/goblin
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
An impish, cross-platform binary parsing crate, written in Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 32 commits, 11 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the `goblin` crate, which focuses on cross-platform binary parsing. Their work involved enhancing the parsing capabilities for Portable Executable (PE) files, specifically adding debugging support to locate PDB GUIDs. They refactored code, switched from `gread` to `pread` for more efficient parsing, and exposed import addend and virtual address data in the Mach-O module. Additionally, they added support for BSD-style archive parsing, enhancing the crate's functionality for analyzing various binary formats.
cratebinary-analysispe-filemachrust
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