Andrew Wills
Principal Software Engineer at MIXAM UK LIMITED
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Wills is a Principal Software Engineer with over 21 years of experience designing and delivering portal and portlet-based web solutions, currently leading technical efforts at MIXAM UK and serving as a Software Architect at Unicon. He brings deep expertise in JSR-168, Groovy, and agile development practices, pairing hands-on coding with architecture and team mentorship. His career spans early web development and enterprise systems, reflecting a steady evolution from web developer to principal engineer. Based in St Albans, UK, Andrew combines classical academic training in English and Latin with a long-standing tech career, an uncommon background that informs clear technical communication and documentation. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he excels at turning legacy portal ecosystems into maintainable, modern platforms.
21 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, Latin, BA, English, Latin at University of MichiganUniversity of Detroit Jesuit High School
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Github Skills (80)
jsr10
menu10
resource-server10
javascript10
login-system10
webjars10
django10
internationalization10
lms10
tomcat10
cli-tools10
bag10
ldap10
uportal10
portlet10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SER401uportal/AnnouncementsPortlet
Sep 2012 - Mar 2018
Contributions:112 commits, 1 PR, 33 comments in 5 years 6 months
uPortal-Project/soffit-samples
Jun 2016 - Sep 2017
Sample uPortal widgets to demonstrate the power of Soffit
Contributions:54 commits, 4 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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