Hire me!

Hi, I’m Wilson, a software developer at NVIDIA based in San Francisco Bay Area, California. I really like to make things go fast ⚡️

Existence of this page does not imply job search status. It is left up for reference on what it’s like to work with me!

My focus is on building developer experience and reliable infrastructure. You may find my work to be incredibly useful if you are looking to:

Speed up systems, whether software or processes.
Increase reliability of services.
Build durability throughout integration layers.
Create self-serve infrastructure-as-code for product development teams.
Optimize costs of cloud computing and development tools.

Various skills that I would be bringing to your organization:

Proficient in Go and Ruby, decent with JavaScript and CSS, comfortable with anything that needs to be done.
Experience of managing Kubernetes clusters, container runtimes, and various Linux quirks in production.
Periodically packing bite-size lessons on observability and operations.
Collaborating closely with users and customers.
Managing projects from inception to production.

Ultimately, I would like to work on difficult problems with kind people. If it sounds like we could be a good fit, I would like to hear from you!

Some snippets of kind words from past colleagues about me:

“When you approve my PRs, something about that makes me feel like the code is actually good and safe.”

“CI is so good now that letting it run has fast enough feedback loop compared to locally running tests.”

“I used to hit retry on CI at least once a day and I have not done it in the last month.”

My most gratifying accomplishments are when I deliver my work to products and organizations which users would pleasantly notice over time despite minimal publicity.

At FireHydrant, I scaled their on-call product from launch day to enterprises.
- I also built tooling to support customer onboarding / migration from existing providers such as PagerDuty.
- Over various investigations, I empowered support teams to learn and diagnose our services using observability tools.
- Managing technical debt as the team ships, to ensure decisions from the past do not block us inconveniently.
At Modern Treasury, I worked in internal tools and build system.
- I cut down their continuous integration (CI) execution time from p95 of over 25 minutes to under 10 minutes, with the average down from 14 minutes to 6 minutes.
- During the same time, I stabilized their test stability from ~70% to 99%.
- This 1.5 month work resulting in over 60 engineering hours saved per week, allowing ~100 engineers to maintain their focus on development.
I spent about 4 years at Pivotal and VMware working on Kubernetes.
- I was part of the release engineering team for open-source Kubernetes project, shepherding releases between 1.19 and 1.22 cycles.
- Internally, I was mostly involved in release engineering where I eliminated false positive CVE alerts, which accounts for 90% of alerts, and led development towards 50% faster artifact builds, saving over 100 engineering hours per week.
I was a software engineer at Maca where I drove implementation of the company’s first product from its inception.
- I worked on getting the system to be SOC 2 compliant.
- Built out interview rubric.
- Got my hands on all corners of the engineering department.
I was at Cerner Corporation, which was acquired by Oracle recently, for a year.
- I built out integrations across services to comply with GDPR right to erasure throughout 10+ year old legacy systems.
- I also flushed out the release system to be faster (from 2 hours to 40 minutes).

This site was last updated 2025-09-16T22:01:08-0700.

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