Will Walker

Senior Platform Engineer

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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Will Walker is a Senior Platform Engineer with eight years of experience building Kubernetes-native platforms and modernizing legacy applications, currently shaping the developer platform for Project Blue at Defense Unicorns. He blends infrastructure-as-code and fast paths-to-production practices with a background delivering cyber capabilities for USCYBERCOM while in the U.S. Air Force, giving him a pragmatic, security-conscious approach to platform design. Will is a full‑stack problem solver—his open-source work on a Cloudflare DDNS integration for UniFi OS shows he moves fluidly between frontend UX and backend API/refactoring tasks. Based in Chattanooga, he excels at bridging development teams and production environments to accelerate secure delivery of mission-critical systems.
code8 years of coding experience
job5 years of employment as a software developer
bookBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Delaware
bookEarly College Program, Early College Program at Wilmington University
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Github Skills (13)

html10
javascript10
cloudflare10
apidoc9
dns9
bootstrap9
api9
bootstra9
css9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
cloudflare-workers8

Programming languages (23)

SmartyMDXC++CSSRustCMakefileGo

Github contributions (5)

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willswire/unifi-ddns

Feb 2022 - Aug 2022

Cloudflare DDNS (Dynamic DNS) support for UniFi OS
Role in this project:
userFull-stack Developer
Contributions:5 releases, 6 reviews, 25 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the front-end and API aspects of the project. They added the website structure and content, including the HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap, defining the application's user interface. Additionally, the user made changes to the back-end by restructuring the code, improving error handling, refactoring, and implementing API functionality related to Cloudflare DNS updates. This indicates a full-stack focus on both the presentation layer and the underlying logic of the application.
ddns-updaterdnscloudflarecloudflare-apicloudflare-ddns
willswire/asortd

Sep 2019 - Aug 2023

Algorithm Sorting Display. Visualize sorting algorithms in the DOM using JS
Contributions:45 PRs, 56 pushes, 40 branches in 3 years 11 months
sorting-algorithmvisualizejavascriptsortingdom
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Will Walker - Senior Platform Engineer