William Archbell
Head Of Platform Technology
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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SeniorWilliam Archbell is a seasoned technology leader with 16+ years of experience delivering scalable software across gaming, enterprise, and fintech platforms. As Head of Platform Technology at Citadel Securities, he shapes platform strategy and engineering culture while driving collaboration across product, security, and operations. He previously led Valorant's engineering organization at Riot Games, steered technical direction for The Initiative, and built multiplayer systems at 343 Industries, delivering high‑performance, scalable experiences to millions of players. An active open‑source contributor, he has advanced ECS and serialization work in the amethyst/specs project, reflecting a strong back‑end and tooling focus alongside gameplay and graphics expertise. Based in Miami and comfortable under pressure, he combines hands‑on technical depth with leadership to turn complex requirements into reliable, timely deliveries.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
data-structures10
data-serialization10
rust10
amazon-ecs10
data-structure10
serialization10
proc-macro9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
amethyst/specs
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Specs - Parallel ECS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the `specs` repository, focusing on enhancements related to serialization and data structures. They added functionality for serializing and deserializing data, specifically including a count for serialization purposes. Furthermore, the user worked on exposing paired storage and added support for enum and enum field attributes to the save/load derive macro. These changes improve the flexibility and completeness of the serialization capabilities within the parallel ECS system.
ecsparallelrustparallel-ecsspecs
Azaril/screeps-timing-annotate
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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