Edwin Wills
Engineering Director at Borderless
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEdwin Wills is an engineering director and hands-on technology leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling product-led startups from seed to Series B across fintech, proptech, logistics and operations. He combines CTO-level strategy and P&L-minded product delivery with deep Ruby on Rails and AWS engineering experience, having led teams at Rentify and TOSHI and consulted through Flat Peak. Based in London, he has a track record of integrating complex billing and subscription systems (including early work with Stripe Billing) and shipping integrations and automation that reduce operational friction. Edwin is pragmatic about quality—his open-source work includes improving test automation and API reliability for a Google Places Ruby wrapper—showing a focus on robust, maintainable systems. He pairs technical mentorship and hiring with a product-first mindset, turning customer pain points into measurable business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science w/ Year in industry, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science w/ Year in industry at University of Kent
English
Github Skills (5)
ruby10
google-places-api10
vcr10
api-testing10
testing10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
qpowell/google_places
Oct 2016 - Aug 2019
A Ruby wrapper around the Google Places API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 releases, 57 commits, 45 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Edwin primarily contributed to the testing and quality assurance of the Google Places API wrapper. They implemented VCR cassette recording, ensuring accurate API interactions and preventing redundant network requests. Additionally, the user addressed API key management and refined the test suite, including modifying test parameters and handling error conditions, to improve robustness and reliability. Furthermore, they refactored code to improve compatibility.
ruby-wrapperapigoogle-apigoogleruby
edwinwills/london_transport
Dec 2015 - Aug 2020
TFL API consumer to turn the TFL API into useful, easy to parse data, currently for tubes, buses and trains in London
Contributions:2 releases, 7 PRs, 28 pushes in 4 years 9 months
apitrainsapi-consumertflbuses
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