Jill Willard
Senior Vice President Of Technology at IXOPAY
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJill Willard is a seasoned FinTech technology executive with 11+ years of experience scaling global payment platforms and leading large engineering organizations. She has architected gateways that process tens of billions in annual transactions, driven platform consolidations across six payment systems, and delivered international processing for SEPA, BACS, BECS and tokenized card flows. Known for turning legacy monoliths into resilient microservices and automating cloud deployments (Terraform on Azure), she balances hands-on architecture with strategic M&A technical vetting and product-led shifts. Jill excels at building high-performing, geographically distributed teams—mentoring engineers into senior leaders while improving retention and reducing on-call burdens without increasing budget. She also operationalized AI-driven engineering workflows like automated code review and regression testing to boost developer productivity. Based in the Chicago area, Jill combines deep payments domain expertise with practical execution across risk, billing, and global expansion.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Webster University
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Clearent-Gateway/GlobalHackV
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
clearent/API-Examples
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 9 pushes in 29 days
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