William Stone
Creator Host
Wall, South Dakota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Stone is a seasoned systems and network engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building and administering large-scale, high-availability infrastructures across Linux, Windows, VMware, AWS, and Azure. After a long contracting career and teaching IT, he now focuses on creative work as the creator and host of Tales From SYL Ranch, a genre-focused review show that leverages his encyclopedic knowledge of science fiction and libertarian-tinged commentary. He has led complex migrations and production deployments, engineered multi-datacenter architectures with strict uptime requirements, and authored custom deployment tooling and RPM packages to streamline operations. Based in Wall, South Dakota, he is retired from full-time work but remains available for selective theatrical engagements and IT consulting. An experienced instructor, he also brings the rare combination of deep technical mastery and on-camera storytelling.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
AS, Computer Science, AS, Computer Science at College of DuPageNone, Theater Arts, None, Theater Arts at University of Nebraska-LincolnBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Northern Illinois University
English, French
Github Skills (11)
aws-s310
filesystem10
amazon10
vfs10
cloud-storage9
fuse9
aws9
amazon-s39
openstack-swift8
flash1
linux1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wrstone/fonts-startrek
Oct 2013 - Oct 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 11 months
wrstone/dotfiles
Jan 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
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