William Ricker
Consultant at (open source)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorWilliam Ricker is an IT infrastructure architect and consultant based in Boston with 11 years of experience designing secure, high-availability systems across financial services, medical informatics, scientific computing, and defense. He blends deep hands-on expertise in virtualization, clustering, Linux/Perl tooling, and information security with the ability to translate between hardware, OS, application, and business domains to drive consolidation and performance improvements. As a seasoned open-source contributor and leader at The Perl Shop and in projects like Ack and Config::Std, he brings test-first, agile development practices to complex legacy modernization and portal/CMS refactors. Practical and curious, he has a track record of finding subtle security issues and turning copy-paste technical debt into well-structured model-driven code and regression suites.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (55)
newsletter10
perl10
ack10
type-constraints9
searching9
tree9
grep9
moose9
baseclass9
cli9
e-mail9
html9
heterogeneous9
geo8
location8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ThePerlShop/perlweekly
Apr 2021 - Apr 2026
A free, once a week e-mail round-up of hand-picked news and articles about Perl
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
mailperlhandnewsround
boston-pm/boston-pm.github.io
Aug 2022 - Feb 2026
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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