Willard Nilges
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarWill Nilges is a versatile software engineer with seven years of experience spanning embedded systems, Linux userspace, cloud services, and robotics, currently maintaining ingestion services on Datadog’s Metrics Resolution team. A Computer Engineering graduate from RIT, he combines low-level expertise—bootloaders, power delivery circuitry, and device validation—with production cloud work on OpenShift and large-scale data ingestion. His background includes system administration, realtime debugging tools at Qualcomm, Snap/Ubuntu Core work, and practical hardware-software integration for products like vending machines and thermal test rigs. Comfortable across domains from VR and computer vision to backend services, he’s known for pragmatic, often “hacky” solutions and a tendency to optimize developer workflows (ask about his ZSH configs). Based in Rochester, NY, he brings a hands-on, full-stack engineering mindset and a readiness to tackle both firmware and cloud-scale problems.
7 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
170reputation
11kreached
3answers
4questions
Github Skills (200)
nyc10
ubuntu10
lwm2m10
pdf-annotation10
middleware10
pdf-viewer10
api10
handwriting10
google-maps-api10
snmp10
visualization10
netty10
json-data10
python10
windows10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
ComputerScienceHouse/altctrl
Oct 2019 - Feb 2021
GDD Imagine 2020 altCTRL Death Panel
Contributions:75 commits, 33 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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WillNilges/dotfiles
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
This is where I'll be putting any dotfiles or custom config scripts.
Contributions:128 commits, 3 PRs, 154 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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