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 (77)
perl10
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ack9
factory9
searching9
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cli8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
n1vux/articles
Nov 2018 - Nov 2024
Contributions:88 pushes, 6 branches, 2 comments in 6 years 1 month
n1vux/Config-Std-Perl
Jul 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:8 PRs, 17 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 2 months
stdini-formatread-writeround-tripconfig
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