Giles Boon-williams
Principal Engineer at YuLife
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGiles Boon-williams is a Principal Engineer based in London with 12 years of experience building product-led engineering organisations and scalable web platforms. He co-founded and served as CTO of Urban, applying product design and operational discipline to a consumer wellness marketplace, and later led product concepts and apps before joining YuLife where he progressed from Lead Engineer to Principal Engineer. Giles blends hands-on architecture and full-stack implementation—having run complex cloud-based job boards, mobile apps, geospatial services and distributed databases—with a strong product sensibility that bridges engineering and business. He’s comfortable scaling teams and systems from startup to growth-stage, and brings a practical, design-focused approach to wellness and consumer-facing products. A lifelong tinkerer with roots in music technology, he pairs creative problem-solving with a track record of shipping reliable, customer-centric systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Music Technology with Software Development (Suspended), Music Technology with Software Development (Suspended) at The University of HuddersfieldPennthorpe Preparatory SchoolMusic Music Tech Computing A-Levels + Maths AS Level, Music Music Tech Computing A-Levels + Maths AS Level at Hurstpierpoint College
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sqlite10
nodejs10
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javascript9
gwt9
sql9
database9
d19
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postgresql9
db29
databases9
mssql9
braintree9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
urbanmassage/availability-store
May 2015 - Nov 2022
In-memory time-range database
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 7 months
memorydatabaserangein-memorytime-range
urbanmassage/easy-server
Jan 2015 - Oct 2020
Easiest possible express wrapper to get something out the door yesterday
Contributions:10 PRs, 19 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 10 months
apiexpressjsjavascriptexpressnodejs
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