# 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.

## Experience

- **Senior Software Engineer at FRVR** (2024 – 2025)
- **Senior Software Engineer at Form3** (2023 – 2024)
- **Software Engineer at Bugsnag (https://www.bugsnag.com)** (2019 – 2023)
- **Senior Software Engineer at Bud** (2026 – present)
- **Senior Software Engineer at Arenko** (2025 – 2026)
- **ICT Services Engineer at City of Bath College** (2010 – 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.
- **Software Engineer at Civica Digital** (2018 – 2019)
- **Software Developer at C2S** (2015 – 2018)
- **Senior Technical Support Engineer / Software Engineer at Newpark Solutions** (2015 – 2015)
- **Software Engineer at Newpark Security** (2013 – 2015)

## Skills

- Go
- Software Engineering
- Systems Design

## Publications

- Journey to a distributed PDS: TOTP auth — willdot.leaflet.pub (https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3mogc3tvd4s25)
- Journey to a distributed PDS: OAuth and deeper thoughts on why this experiment exists... — willdot.leaflet.pub (https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3mmaayhddq22b)
- Journey to a distributed PDS: A New Hope — willdot.leaflet.pub (https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3miu5jbrsrc2p)
- The journey to a distributed PDS — willdot.leaflet.pub (https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3miiirzf7jc2j)
- Running Tangled.sh locally for development... — willdot.leaflet.pub (https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3m74eyqapt22p)
- Setting a custom homepage on a PDS — willdot.leaflet.pub (https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3m25uvnuwnk2t)
- Migrating my Knot — willdot.leaflet.pub (https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3lzxblsm5p22g)
- Hosting my own code with a Tangled Knot — willdot.leaflet.pub (https://willdot.leaflet.pub/3lzwbwrof6c24)

## Other profiles

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