Staff Engineer
2020 - 2021VMware- Provided technical leadership for the Tanzu Application Service core runtime team.
- Designed solutions for complex bugs and new features.
- Contributed to the support strategy for FTSE 500 customers.
Technologies: Go, BOSH, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Docker, Concourse CITechnical Project Lead
2013 - 2017Pivotal- Built clustered data services for Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
- Created deployable continuous delivery pipelines for various products.
- Produced various libraries and tools for the rapid development of new products.
- Led the Garden container team through to the initial release of the next generation of Cloud Foundry runtime.
Technologies: Ruby, Docker, BOSH, Linux, GoFreelance iOS Developer
2013 - 2013PSPDFKit- Added support for playback and recording of PDF audio annotations.
- Built a prototype GUI for PDF audio annotations.
- Assisted in updates for new version of iOS.
Technologies: PSPDFKit, iOS, C, Objective-CWeb and iOS Developer
2010 - 2013Softwire- Added Core Data support for an iOS client for a large white-label publishing system.
- Added several other new features to the existing iOS app, including updates for new resolutions, iPad, etc.
- Built a continuous delivery pipeline and an automated build and configuration system to produce different versions of the app with different feature sets.
- Built one of a suite of three single page web apps to visualize pricing data and graphically show the impact of pricing changes.
- Worked on a variety of web apps, both front- and back-end.
Technologies: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby, Objective-C, iOS
Will Pragnell
Software Developer in San Francisco, United States
Member since January 10, 2016
Will is a software engineer with experience at all levels of the stack. He specializes in audio programming but has a strong background in DevOps, distributed systems, and containers. Will is highly experienced with Go, Ruby, and Objective-C, and he loves anything to do with music or audio.
Will is now available for hire
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Git, Linux, OS X, C, Go, C++, Rust, Kubernetes, iOS, Ruby
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is Garden, the container technology for Cloud Foundry.
Employment
Experience
- Garden
Container technology for Cloud Foundry.
Provides a Go API allowing orchestrators to write platform-agnostic code to run containers on a variety of back-ends.
The Garden-Linux back-end provides a production-ready container system that is secure in multi-tenant environments. It also has support for running Docker images.
Skills
Paradigms
Test-driven Development (TDD), Unit Testing, Behavior-driven Development (BDD)Other
Cloud Foundry, AudioLanguages
Ruby, Objective-C, Go, C, C++, Rust, SwiftFrameworks
Cocoa Touch, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Cocoa, AudioUnitTools
Git, Vim Text Editor, Bundler, BOSH, Concourse CIPlatforms
Docker, MacOS, Linux, OS X, Unix, iOS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), KubernetesLibraries/APIs
CocoaPodsStorage
Memcached, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis
Education
- Master's Degree in Computer Science2009 - 2010UCL - London
- Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music Technology2004 - 2007Thames Valley University - Reading
