William Perron

@wperron
Head in the clouds
Montréal
He/Him

Golang

rustacean

Observability

JavaScript

Software Engineer

Coding

AWS

DevOps

Open Source

Software Engineering

Mechanical Keyboard Enthusiast

Hey there 👋 my name is William, I'm a software engineer based in Montréal, currently working with Shopify on all things Observability.

These days I'm focused mainly on Observability, Site Reliability and building large-scale distributed systems.

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I'm open to

speaking at events,

speaking on podcasts,

live streaming,

open source contributions,

guest lecturing,

advising companies,

content creation,

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Nov 2021 - Present

Senior Production Engineer, Observability, Shopify

Mar 2021 - Sep 2021

Software Engingeer, Deno Land

Jul 2020 - Feb 2021

Monitoring Specialist, Ubisoft

Jan 2020 - Jun 2020

Cloud Specialist, mdf commerce

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Wrote up a piece on why I think Generics in Go are a welcome improvement that help bring the language in a better place, even though the Go team doesn't seem to totally agree. Check it out: https:/...

Is it possible to have the Go runtime behave like an event loop? I was having a discussion on Discord about the behaviors of different asynchronous runtime and the question was raised: Is it possib...

Recently it seems I find myself in the same conversation over and over again about how error handling should be done in a programing language, more specifically in how Go and Rust differ, so I've c...