William Howe
Lead Platform Engineer
Luverne, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Howe is a Lead Platform Engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building resilient cloud-native systems, specializing in Clojure and functional programming. He combines deep Linux, networking, and security expertise with a strong background in DevOps, migration of complex on-premise systems to AWS, and operating high-availability multi-spacecraft services. His career spans roles supporting NASA Goddard, USGS/EROS, and enterprise environments, demonstrating an ability to move between infrastructure, middleware, and front-end concerns. A former Marine infantry squad leader, he brings disciplined incident response, team leadership, and operational rigor to engineering challenges. Based in Luverne, Minnesota, he favors pragmatic automation and secure-by-design practices that reduce toil and accelerate delivery. He’s as comfortable writing Clojure services as he is tuning Linux systems and designing reliable deployment pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA General Studies, Associate of Arts - AA General Studies at American Military UniversityBachelor's of Science Network Security Network Engineering, Bachelor's of Science Network Security Network Engineering at University of Advancing Technology
Github Skills (46)
telegram-api10
telegram-bot-api10
leiningen10
telegram10
telegram-bot10
api9
zsh9
cli9
group-chat9
shell9
docker8
python8
php8
clojure8
bash8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wdhowe/lemme-know-bot
Nov 2020 - Apr 2022
A Telegram bot to monitor a group chat for keywords.
Contributions:7 releases, 22 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 5 months
telegram-botmonitorgroup-chatbotchat
wdhowe/clojure-snippets
Nov 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:158 commits, 69 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
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