William Annis
Research Computing Facilitator
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Annis is a seasoned research computing facilitator with over 25 years of Unix systems administration experience in academic environments, now advising researchers at UW School of Medicine and Public Health. He blends deep operational expertise—configuration management, system monitoring, HTCondor administration, and scientific software packaging—with a user-focused practice of co-designing workflows and training researchers to get the most from advanced compute resources. A longtime generalist who still writes automation in Python, Shell and occasionally Common Lisp, he also serves as the group’s go-to installer for R, Python and Julia libraries. William pairs strong documentation habits and policy experience with hands-on technical leadership, and has an unusual creative sideline inventing constructed languages for film, including contributions credited on Black Adam. Based in Madison, WI, he uniquely combines production-grade sysadmin craft with researcher-facing facilitation and a taste for niche language design.
8 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, PSYCHOLOGY, Bachelor of Science - BS, PSYCHOLOGY at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (21)
cookbook10
common-lisp10
lisp10
inspector9
listener9
rgb8
lisp-interpreter8
quicklisp8
scheme8
mcclim7
stack-based7
esoteric-language7
vector-graphics6
programming-language6
compiler5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wmannis/hypomnemata
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:72 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
wmannis/lexifer
Mar 2018 - Nov 2021
Word generation software for conlangers
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 3 years 9 months
pythonconlang
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