Will Mccutchen
Principal Engineer at Ro
Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Mccutchen is a Principal Engineer with 18 years of experience designing infrastructure, developer platforms, and resilient systems that make shipping software safe, fast, and enjoyable. Based in Hanover, NH, he has led teams and driven org-wide improvements at companies like BuzzFeed—where he helped build Rig, a platform-as-a-service that cut provisioning from weeks to minutes—and now shapes platform strategy at Ro. He combines hands-on backend work (notably a well-tested go-httpbin implementation and several full-stack utility projects) with empathetic people leadership and a track record of hiring, mentoring, and operationalizing best practices. Will’s strength is translating developer experience needs into robust, observable systems and workflows that scale across large teams. Colleagues describe him as collaborative and supportive, equally effective as an IC, team lead, or manager. His background in both product-facing apps and core infrastructure gives him a rare perspective on bridging developer productivity with production reliability.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, History, BA, History at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
http10
go10
python10
back-end-development10
testing10
apidoc9
github-pages9
api9
gnu-make8
json8
makefile8
seo7
fabric6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mccutchen/go-httpbin
Aug 2016 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 82 reviews, 247 commits in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Will contributed to the development of the `go-httpbin` project, a Golang port of the HTTP testing service. Their work primarily involved implementing new endpoints to simulate various HTTP scenarios, including endpoints for `/ip`, `/headers`, and `/user-agent`, along with tests. They also refactored the project's structure, separating middleware and helper functions into distinct files, and introduced a new /base64 decode endpoint for base64 operations.
golangdependencieswell-testedzerotesting
mccutchen/strftime.org
Aug 2010 - Jul 2021
A single-serving-site that provides a reference for Python's strftime formatting options
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 10 PRs, 17 pushes in 11 years
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on improving the user interface and overall site functionality of the project, which is a reference site for Python's strftime formatting options. Contributions include initial UI design and styling using CSS, and subsequent redesigns. The user also added SEO improvements, Google site verification, and updated the site's deployment process, including building with Make and publishing with GitHub Pages, as well as switching to Python 3.
single-serving-sitestrftimepythonservingoptions
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