William Hubbs
Developer at Gentoo Linux
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Hubbs is a seasoned developer with 22 years of cross-platform systems and release engineering experience, currently contributing to Gentoo Linux after a long tenure as a Release Engineer at PlayStation. He brings deep low-level expertise in C/C++, assembly, and legacy languages (Fortran, Pascal, BASIC) alongside modern tooling knowledge from Git and CI to GNU AutoTools and Make. William has a strong Unix/Linux pedigree across Solaris, AIX, IRIX and hobbyist-to-production init work—his OpenRC contributions improved build systems, security hardening, and container (systemd-nspawn) support. Comfortable in both QA and hands-on production roles, he pairs institutional knowledge from enterprise support and QA with pragmatic DevOps fixes that reduce shell indirection and simplify version handling. Based in Austin, he blends academic foundations in computer science with a rare breadth across decades of hardware and OS generations.
22 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts, General Studies, Associate of Arts, General Studies at Odessa CollegeBachelor of Science, Computer Science; Minor, Rehabilitation Studies, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science; Minor, Rehabilitation Studies at University of North Texas
Github Skills (10)
sh10
script10
build-system10
gnu-make10
shell10
makefile10
scripting10
linux9
system-administration8
containerization7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OpenRC/openrc
Jul 2012 - Jan 2023
The OpenRC init system
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 1042 commits, 243 PRs in 10 years 8 months
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on modifying the build system and init system configuration of the openrc project. Their contributions included modifying the Makefile to create a ChangeLog, removing shell command calls, and improving how version information is handled. The user also addressed security concerns, fixed typos, and added support for systemd-nspawn containers.
init-systemopenrcdbusirc-serverinit
williamh/pybugz
Dec 2007 - Nov 2016
Contributions:310 commits, 7 PRs, 55 pushes in 9 years
pythonpython-interfacebugzillamojomozilla
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