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.
8 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
170reputation
11kreached
3answers
4questions
Github Skills (200)
nyc10
ubuntu10
cpp10
pdf-annotation10
mesh10
middleware10
pdf-viewer10
google-maps-api10
snmp10
visualization10
json-data10
python10
windows10
csh10
gtk10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
WillNilges/cursed-status-page
Oct 2023 - Nov 2025
A simple status page webserver that you control using Slack
Contributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 42 PRs in 2 years 1 month
slackstatus-pagewebserver
WillNilges/pubsite
Oct 2018 - Jul 2026
Tidbits, tips, tricks, and troubleshooting that I forget on a regular basis
Contributions:2 reviews, 14 PRs, 186 pushes in 7 years 9 months
troubleshootinglinuxregulartrickstips-tricks
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