William Wilson
Senior Software Engineer at Everfox
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Wilson is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems and DevOps tooling, currently based in Philadelphia. He has a strong track record at Canonical and Forcepoint, contributing notably to the snapd project by refactoring build and packaging workflows and improving compatibility for host fakeroot and classic image builds. Comfortable across C/C++/Python and Bash, he brings systems-level thinking from his academic research in mathematics and parallelized simulations to production infrastructure. William combines hands-on engineering with a pragmatic approach to packaging and release automation, and he’s adept at turning complex build problems into maintainable, reproducible pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mathematics at Drexel University
English, Spanish, c++, matlab, python, c, fortran, java
Github Skills (12)
filesystem10
go10
build-automation10
image9
linux9
bash9
image-capture9
image-generation9
imager9
image-editing9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/snapd
Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
The snapd and snap tools enable systems to work with .snap files.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 17 commits, 7 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on refactoring and improving the build and packaging process for the `snapd` project. They migrated and refactored internal functions related to filesystem creation. They also updated the build process to correctly use the host environment's fakeroot, adding flags and options for better compatibility. In addition, the user made changes to support classic image building.
snapdsnap
canonical/ubuntu-image
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Official tool to build Ubuntu Images.
Contributions:100 reviews, 663 commits, 130 PRs in 1 year 9 months
linuxubuntusnap
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