Hire me!

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

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:

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 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).