William Baker
Full-stack Developer at Microsoft
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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RockstarWilliam Baker is a Full-stack Developer with nine years of experience based in Greater Boston and currently working at Microsoft. He brings deep systems-level expertise to full-stack projects, having made substantial kernel- and filesystem-level contributions to Microsoft’s high-profile VFSForGit project that improve Git scalability and file operation handling. William also strengthens developer tooling and macOS build reliability through work on Scalar, removing deprecated features and modernizing build and test dependencies. Comfortable spanning backend, DevOps, and system engineering, he specializes in making large-scale developer workflows more robust and performant. Peers value his ability to translate low-level technical complexity into practical, production-ready improvements.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (30)
git10
filesystem10
c-language10
scripting10
memory-management10
c1110
c1710
kernel10
low-level-programming10
script10
kernel-mode10
build-automation10
file-handling10
sh10
shell10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/VFSForGit
Jan 2017 - Dec 2019
Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale
Role in this project:
Back-end & System Engineer
Back-end & System EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 757 commits, 255 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:William made substantial changes to the kernel-level file system interactions, particularly focusing on the handling of file operations within the "vfsforgit" repository. Their commits include modifications to the Kauth handler, adding support for new file notifications such as file creation and renaming, and adjusting the system to account for the various stages of file operations. These changes appear to be aimed at improving functionality, and optimizing the file handling logic within the virtual file system. The work involves deep system-level interaction.
virtual-file-system
microsoft/scalar
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
Scalar: A set of tools and extensions for Git to allow very large monorepos to run on Git without a virtualization layer
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:107 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on improving the build and configuration scripts for the project, specifically targeting the macOS build process by fixing and updating build scripts. Additionally, the user removed dead code and deprecated features related to hooks, named pipes, and internal locking mechanisms. The user also made code changes to update dependencies and dependencies of tests.
virtualization
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