Will R
Co-Founder Chief Technology Officer at Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc
United States
Summary
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RockstarWill R is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO with over 12 years of experience building scalable web and health-tech platforms. He currently leads engineering at BlueHive Health and previously grew its technology stack as CTO since 2018, combining startup velocity with operational discipline. A hands-on full-stack developer, Will contributes to prominent open-source projects like Meteor and Rocket.Chat, improving back-end rate limiting and hardening UI/UX across real-time communication systems. He’s comfortable shipping both infrastructure-level improvements (e.g., refactoring Meteor rate-limiter internals) and polished front-end fixes that improve usability on small screens. Based in the United States, he bridges product, engineering, and compliance in healthcare settings, bringing practical experience from Medical Informatics Engineering. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance developer ergonomics with production reliability.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (17)
debug10
javascript10
rate-limiting10
realtime10
ui-design10
uid10
chat10
front-end-development10
nodejs10
reactive-programming10
meteor10
css9
html8
mongodb8
mongodb-database8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Aug 2018 - Sep 2020
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 17 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the user interface within the Rocket.Chat platform. Their contributions included fixing login screen issues on small screens, addressing anonymous registration problems, and correcting display issues with attachment dates. Additionally, the user improved attachment download caching and upgraded the EmojiOne library. They also made adjustments to custom statuses, including bug fixes and usability improvements.
meteordata-protectionchatjavascriptcollaboration
meteor/meteor
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Meteor, the JavaScript App Platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 commit, 7 PRs, 59 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the `ddp-rate-limiter` and `rate-limit` packages within the Meteor framework. They implemented features to allow custom error messages for rate-limiting rules and refactored the code to use `Map` for storing error messages. Further contributions included general code cleanup and merging updates from the `devel` branch. These changes enhanced the rate limiting capabilities of the application, providing developers with greater control over error messaging.
app-platformmeteorjavascriptframeworktoolkit
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