William Langford
Senior Software Engineer at DigitalOcean
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Langford is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems, currently driving engineering at DigitalOcean from New Jersey. He brings deep systems-level expertise—demonstrated by substantial contributions to the widely used jq command-line JSON processor, where he added regex support via oniguruma, base64/UTF-8 fixes, and a library system. His background spans backend roles at Daily Burn and hands-on mobile engineering earlier in his career, giving him a pragmatic full-stack perspective. A Rutgers Computer Science graduate, he combines production-grade engineering with open-source craftsmanship, often tackling subtle correctness and build-system challenges that improve developer tooling and core functionality.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of South CarolinaBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Rutgers University
Github Skills (12)
c1710
regular-expression10
json10
jsonp10
c1110
jsonb10
integrations9
integrate9
lib9
command-line-tool9
jq7
valgrind7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jqlang/jq
Jun 2014 - Nov 2020
Command-line JSON processor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 88 commits, 44 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the jq project by adding regex support, which involved incorporating the oniguruma library. This included modifying the build system, adding valgrind suppressions, and implementing new jq built-in functions for regex matching and testing. Furthermore, the user addressed base64 encoding of UTF-8 strings, fixed issues with negative array indices, and introduced a library system, enhancing the core capabilities and utility of the command-line JSON processor. The commits show involvement with core functions and expanding functionality to support new features.
command-line-tooljsonpathjqfileformatcommand-line
wtlangford/jq
Jan 2015 - Mar 2020
Command-line JSON processor
Contributions:2 PRs, 56 pushes, 17 branches in 5 years 2 months
command-line-toolcommandline-tooljqcommand-linejson
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