Robert Wills
Senior Software Dev Engineer at Expedia, Inc.
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobert Wills is a senior software engineer with 17 years of experience and deep expertise in JVM languages—especially Scala and Java—who currently builds reactive, low-latency systems at Expedia from London. He’s focused on processing live data streams, having applied the same actor-driven approaches to home energy telemetry and market tick data, and routinely leverages Akka to tame concurrency across services. Comfortable across a broad stack, Robert pairs language diversity (Haskell, Python, ClojureScript) with hands-on Linux and embedded experience, having shipped code on ARM devices and OS-embedded platforms. His career spans finance, energy, media and travel, where he’s delivered everything from automated trading components and live pricing engines to optimized document-generation backends. Known for pragmatic system simplifications—such as collapsing distributed OSGi clouds into fast single executables—he blends careful engineering with practical performance improvements. His academic background in philosophy and economics underpins an analytical approach to complex system design.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Upper LynnMasters, Philosophy, Masters, Philosophy at University of OxfordHigh School Diploma, and International Baccalaureate; International Baccalaureate; Maths; Physics; English; History, High School Diploma, and International Baccalaureate; International Baccalaureate; Maths; Physics; English; History at Western Canada High SchoolBA, Philosophy, Economics, BA, Philosophy, Economics at University of Calgary
English, Chinese, French, Italian
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Github Skills (25)
smtp9
protocols9
rest-api8
blocking8
circe8
imap8
non-blocking7
scala7
haskell7
reactive-streams7
elasticsearch6
pop36
cartesian-product6
functional-programming6
http6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wrwills/formaggio
Nov 2010 - Jun 2012
Contributions:76 commits in 1 year 6 months
wrwills/eosDance
Jul 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:7 commits in 6 months
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