Phil Wills
Principal Software Engineer at Accurx
Watford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhil Wills is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building data-driven systems, leading teams, and shipping production software that improves decision-making and user outcomes. He combines hands-on engineering, architecture, and people leadership from roles at Accurx, Snyk, Facebook, and The Guardian, often bridging product, analytics, and operations. Phil is a strong advocate for Continuous Delivery, close collaboration between engineers and users, and pragmatic use of data—having driven analytics platforms like Ophan and owned core account safety data at Facebook. He founded the open-source Scanamo library, reflecting a practical bent for simplifying data access in production systems. Comfortable moving between coding, coaching and technical strategy, he’s known for turning fragmented views into coherent launch plans and measurable improvements. Based in Watford with an MSci in Physics from Cambridge, he brings analytical rigor and a bias for delivering working code.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MSci, Physics, MSci, Physics at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (163)
ber10
security10
generic-programming10
extensible10
guardian10
client-library10
modular10
sarif10
traceability10
sbt-assembly10
dynamodb10
vulnerabilities10
snyk10
search-engine10
teamcity10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/sbt-riffraff-artifact
Oct 2014 - Oct 2016
SBT plugin for creating RiffRaff deployable artifacts
Contributions:28 commits, 26 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years
deployablesbt-pluginscalaartifactssbt
philwills/arthurwynn
Mar 2009 - Jan 2021
Crossword application
Contributions:54 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 12 years
crossword
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