William Buchaus
Site Reliability Engineer at Lightedge
Naples, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Buchaus is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience and a lifetime of Linux expertise spanning system administration, cloud, and automation. He has driven high-availability platforms at Joyent and Rackspace, building cross-region PostgreSQL Patroni clusters, optimizing AMI-style image pipelines, and reducing incident response times through automation. Comfortable across Debian/RHEL families, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, and OpenStack/AWS, he pairs deep security and compliance knowledge (CIS, SOC2, HIPAA, PCI) with pragmatic DevOps and SRE practices. Known for mentoring junior engineers and improving team efficiency, he brings measurable uptime and performance improvements to mission-critical environments. Based in Naples, Florida, he balances a technical life with unexpected hobbies—he’s a bassist and self-described “house and table flipper,” hinting at a hands-on, creative problem-solving style.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
PHD, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, PHD, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Work ExperienceDiploma, General Studies, Diploma, General Studies at Thornwood
German
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Github Skills (120)
vim10
spacemacs10
launcher10
ncurses10
qt10
file-search10
melpa10
browser10
emacs-lsp10
emacs-lisp10
cli-application10
emacs10
journaling10
cli10
file-manager10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
snuffop/doom-config
Apr 2022 - Apr 2023
My Doom Configuration
Contributions:2 PRs, 186 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
snuffop/Nvim
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Vanilla Nvim Config
Contributions:2 PRs, 388 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
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