Jack Willis-craig
Co-Founder at banja
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJack Willis-craig is a software engineer and co-founder based in Sydney with 12 years of experience building full-stack systems and hardening cloud services. He progressed through multiple engineering roles at Amazon and AWS, moving from SDE I to security-focused engineering and back to product development, demonstrating fluency in both scalable software design and practical cybersecurity. Jack has hands-on experience migrating infrastructure to Kubernetes with Terraform, leading React-based product builds, and contributing to open-source tooling—most notably implementing login, encryption, and testing features in an unofficial TikTok API wrapper. As a founder at banja, he combines operational rigor from large-scale cloud environments with startup agility. His background in enterprise systems development and financial services gives him an uncommon blend of product-minded engineering and security-first thinking.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B. Business (Financial Services) B. Science in IT (Enterprise Systems Development), B. Business (Financial Services) B. Science in IT (Enterprise Systems Development) at University of Technology Sydney
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
apidoc10
api10
authentication9
axios9
typescript9
user-authentication9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
testing8
architecture7
architectures7
html6
htaccess6
css6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
szdc/tiktok-api
Jun 2018 - Sep 2021
Unofficial API wrapper for TikTok
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 77 commits, 77 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the development of an unofficial API wrapper for TikTok. The commits demonstrate the implementation of core functionalities such as user login and API interaction. Code changes involve the definition of request parameters, API configuration, and the encryption of sensitive data. The user also refactored the code to improve its overall structure and added tests to ensure the functionality is working correctly.
apitiktok-apiapi-wrappertiktokunofficial-api
szdc/uts-timetable-generator
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:81 commits, 2 PRs, 56 pushes in 1 month
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