William Dowling
Software Engineer at Broadcom
Rennes, Brittany, France
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Top SchoolWilliam Dowling is a seasoned software and infrastructure engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently focused on FoundationDB work at Broadcom. He has a strong SRE and platform background from roles at VMware, Tanzu Observability, Lookout, and Salesforce, blending reliability engineering with continuous delivery and production operations. Based in Rennes, France, he pairs hands-on systems-level expertise (UNIX and infrastructure engineering) with recent graduate-level CS studies at Georgia Tech. Known for moving systems from prototype to durable production, he brings a pragmatic approach to fault tolerance and observability that helps teams run stateful services reliably.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBSc Computer Science and Software Engineering, BSc Computer Science and Software Engineering at Maynooth University
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Github Skills (28)
foundationdb10
transactional10
key-value-store10
acid10
distributed-database9
ifttt9
operating-system8
chatops8
cicd8
unix7
devops7
automation7
python7
sre7
incident-response7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wavefrontHQ/wavefront-fdb-tailer
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Wavefront Metrics Adaptor for FoundationDB Logs
Contributions:5 reviews, 11 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 5 months
foundationdb
wdowling/foundationdb
Jul 2023 - Feb 2026
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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