Will Hunt
Technical Lead at Element
Basingstoke and Deane, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Hunt is a Technical Lead with 13 years' experience focused on decentralizing communication protocols and building robust Matrix ecosystem integrations. At Element he leads bridges and integrations work—contributing to high-profile projects like Synapse, Dendrite, matrix-appservice-discord and the Element/Hydrogen clients—spanning backend systems, TypeScript refactors and front-end UX improvements. He brings deep practical knowledge of application service auth, media handling, and bridging disparate messaging platforms, plus hands-on work modernizing infra such as PostgreSQL support for push gateways. Will pairs systems-level thinking with pragmatic product sensibility, having moved projects from prototype Discord bridges to production-ready features. Based in the UK and grounded in a computer science background from the University of Portsmouth, he also contributes to spec writing for Matrix, reflecting a blend of engineering and protocol-level stewardship.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Portsmouth
Github Skills (62)
spec10
javascript10
registrar10
composition10
matrix10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
api-design10
discord10
psycopg10
user-authentication10
authentication10
typescript10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord
Jun 2016 - Sep 2022
A bridge between Matrix and Discord.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 49 reviews, 954 commits in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Will appears to be primarily involved in the development of backend features, with a focus on the interaction between the Discord and Matrix services. Their initial work involved establishing a working prototype of the Discord bridge, as indicated by the initial commit message. The user also worked on profile information, as well as file and image upload support. These changes suggest a developer focused on implementing the core functionality of a Discord and Matrix bridge.
discordbridgematrixriot
matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
Node.js IRC bridge for Matrix
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:75 releases, 352 reviews, 2276 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Will's contributions focused on converting the IrcServer class to Typescript, a significant refactoring effort. This involved updating the code base with type definitions and integrating type-checking to improve code quality and maintainability. The user also made improvements to the excluded users code and the Postgres schema, as well as refactored code to allow the username to be specified for bots.
ircnodejs
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