Will Vincent
CTO VP Engineering - Open To New Role at Colossal Gnome, LLC
Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolWill Vincent is an engineering executive and platform architect with over 15 years of hands-on experience and 20+ years in the industry, currently serving as CTO/VP Engineering and open to new roles. He specializes in stabilizing and re-architecting data-intensive, multi-tenant platforms—driving migrations to AWS, eliminating outages, and enabling sales into larger customers. Will blends full-stack engineering with DevOps expertise, contributing to open-source projects like a Docker-based dependency manager (tighten/takeout) and the cross-platform Postbird PostgreSQL GUI. Known for stepping into ambiguous, high-risk projects, he balances tactical delivery (keeping legacy systems running) with strategic rewrites that reduce operational risk. Based in Minnesota, he pairs engineering leadership with unexpected creative skills—trained as a voice actor—and a history of filmmaking and on-air work that sharpens his communication and product storytelling.
15 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Radio & TV Broadcasting, Certificate Radio & TV Broadcasting at Brown CollegeHighschool Degree, Highschool Degree at White Bear Lake Area High SchoolComputer Science: Software Technologies, Computer Science: Software Technologies at Century CollegeVoice Over, Voice Over at Braintracks Audio
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
docker10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
desktop-application10
dockers10
electron10
devops9
php9
html9
css9
sql8
drupal6
mysql4
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tighten/takeout
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Docker-based development-only dependency manager. macOS, Linux, and WSL2-only and installs via PHP's Composer... for now.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the integration and configuration of a Minio service within the Takeout project. They implemented features to allow DNS buckets and conditionally set environment parameters. Furthermore, the user introduced and configured the Soketi service, including setting up metrics. They also fixed linting issues and enabled metrics for the Soketi service.
mysqlphplinuxtakeoutdocker
Paxa/postbird
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Open source PostgreSQL GUI client for macOS, Linux and Windows
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Will made several contributions to the Postbird project. These included implementing features such as a table filter and saving query editor snippets. They also addressed UI/UX elements through changes in style and ensuring scrollbars. Furthermore, the user worked on content-related adjustments within various views and dialogs.
windowsjavascriptlinuxguigui-client
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