# Will (@willdot.net)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/willdot.net
Headline: Senior Software Engineer

## About

willdot.net  Software engineer primarily using Go.

Interested in observability and cloud systems.

Love to write little CLI tools that help me day to day.

## Career

- **Senior Software Engineer at Bud** (Mar 2026 - Present)
- **Senior Software Engineer at Arenko** (Jul 2025 - Mar 2026)
- **Senior Software Engineer at FRVR** (Sep 2024 - Jul 2025)
- **Senior Software Engineer at Form3** (Jan 2023 - Sep 2024)
- **Software Engineer at Bugsnag (https://www.bugsnag.com)** (Oct 2019 - Jan 2023)
- **Software Engineer at Civica Digital** (Jan 2018 - Oct 2019)
- **Software Developer at C2S** (Nov 2015 - Jan 2018)
- **Senior Technical Support Engineer / Software Engineer at Newpark Solutions** (Jan 2015 - Oct 2015)
- **Software Engineer at Newpark Security** (Aug 2013 - Jul 2015)
- **ICT Services Engineer at City of Bath College** (Sep 2010 - Aug 2013)
  Providing 2nd line support for the college staff and students. Developing ways to improve the way the staff and students use ICT within the college.

## Publications

- My Appview - the first xrpc endpoint — willdot.leaflet.pub (Sep 2026) https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3mun476fkd224
- My Appview — willdot.leaflet.pub (Aug 2026) https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3mud5fa247s2e
- Journey to a distributed PDS: TOTP auth — willdot.leaflet.pub (Jun 2026) https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3mogc3tvd4s25
- Journey to a distributed PDS: OAuth and deeper thoughts on why this experiment exists... — willdot.leaflet.pub (May 2026) https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3mmaayhddq22b
- Journey to a distributed PDS: A New Hope — willdot.leaflet.pub (Apr 2026) https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3miu5jbrsrc2p
- The journey to a distributed PDS — willdot.leaflet.pub (Apr 2026) https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3miiirzf7jc2j
- Running Tangled.sh locally for development... — willdot.leaflet.pub (Dec 2025) https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3m74eyqapt22p
- Setting a custom homepage on a PDS — willdot.leaflet.pub (Oct 2025) https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3m25uvnuwnk2t
- Migrating my Knot — willdot.leaflet.pub (Sep 2025) https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3lzxblsm5p22g
- Hosting my own code with a Tangled Knot — willdot.leaflet.pub (Sep 2025) https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3lzwbwrof6c24

## Skills

### Technical
- Go
- Software Engineering
- Systems Design

## Education

- **University of Bath** — FdSc , IT (Associate or short-cycle degree) (Sep 2009 - Jul 2011)

## Links

- bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/willdot.net
- tangled: https://tangled.org/did:plc:dadhhalkfcq3gucaq25hjqon