Will Pragnell
Mastering Engineer at Effra Mastering
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolWill Pragnell is a seasoned software engineer and mastering engineer based in Berkeley with 14 years of experience building reliable, cross-platform applications and developer tools. He has held senior and staff roles at Pivotal/VMware and Anjuna Security, blending hands-on engineering with technical leadership across cloud-native and security-focused teams. An active open-source contributor, he’s contributed notable macOS and cross-platform fixes to the Ghostty terminal emulator and improvements to CocoaPods’ core tooling, showing fluency in both front-end native UI and backend tooling. Will’s background in music technology and audio engineering complements his current role in mastering, giving him a rare combination of audio domain expertise and deep software craftsmanship. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from UCL and often bridges product, performance, and platform concerns in his work.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Music Technology, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Music Technology at University of West LondonUniversity College London
French
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Github Skills (17)
dependency-management10
objective-c10
terminal-emulator10
terminal-application10
zig10
macos10
package-manager10
emulation10
cocoapods10
swift9
plist9
automated-tests8
cross-platform8
multiplatform8
ruby7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
CocoaPods/CocoaPods
Apr 2012 - May 2012
The Cocoa Dependency Manager.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on enhancing the CocoaPods project's core functionality. Their contributions included adding a license method, refactoring and updating the plist acknowledgement class, and integrating the acknowledgements generator into the install command. They also made several changes to ensure the code's clarity, such as simplifying the acknowledgements file saving and fixing various typos.
dependency-manageriosmacobjective-cswift
ghostty-org/ghostty
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 9 comments, 1 issue in 6 days
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the macOS-specific implementation of the terminal emulator, Ghostty. Their work involved fixing bugs related to non-native fullscreen modes, focusing on menu and dock visibility issues. They also implemented new features, such as the "visible-menu" option for non-native fullscreen. Additionally, they fixed potential issues with zombie processes and implemented the `tmpDir` and `expandPath` functions for Windows compatibility.
gpu-accelerationterminal-emulator
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