Will Sargent
Independent Consultant at Terse Systems
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarWill Sargent is an experienced back-end software engineer and independent consultant based in San Francisco with 16 years building resilient web and API systems. He spent four years on the Play Framework team at Lightbend and continues to contribute to prominent open-source projects—improving cookie handling and async HTTP robustness in Play and AsyncHttpClient and enhancing LLM service backends in Letta. Will's strengths are in Scala/Java server-side architectures, realtime systems (Akka, Play, SSE) and complex commerce flows, with a track record of stabilizing security-sensitive networking code and integrations. He prefers hands-on engineering over job hunting and combines deep protocol-level fixes with pragmatic consulting to keep production systems reliable.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
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Github Skills (38)
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scala10
javas10
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
playframework/play-scala-starter-example
Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
Play Scala Starter Template (ideal for new users!)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 78 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on updating and maintaining the Play Framework template, upgrading dependencies, and adapting to newer versions of the framework. Their work included updating Scala versions, modifying build configurations (build.sbt, plugins.sbt), and incorporating new libraries. They also addressed testing-related configurations, including upgrading testing libraries and modifying test files. Finally, the user updated the welcome page to use the Discuss Play Forum.
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playframework/playframework
Jun 2013 - Feb 2022
The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 601 commits, 736 PRs in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on enhancing the Play Framework's web service capabilities by implementing cookie handling methods and integrating a cookie wrapper for asynchronous HTTP requests. They modified core Java and Scala files within the framework to introduce new interfaces and classes for handling cookies in both Java and Scala, including adding methods to read, add, and retrieve cookies in the response. These changes enhanced the framework's support for web service interactions by making cookie management more robust.
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