Stephen Willey
Director Of Systems Engineering - Special Projects at DNEG
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolStephen Willey is a seasoned systems engineering leader with 15 years building and scaling high-performance computing and VFX infrastructure across global studios. Currently Director of Systems Engineering - Special Projects at DNEG in Vancouver, he combines hands-on expertise in datacenter/cooling, storage, compute, VDI and security with a proven ability to bootstrap sites, grow teams, and drive cross-platform change at scale. He’s known for pragmatic problem-solving—“build it, fix it, document it, fix it properly”—and for earning stakeholder trust by delivering reliable systems under pressure. Stephen has repeatedly taken operations from zero to tens of thousands of machines, led rapid secure remote-working transitions, and squeezed efficiency out of tight budgets during industry turbulence. Comfortable writing tooling and deep-diving into multi-platform stacks, he blends broad technical curiosity with calm crisis management and a knack for making international, multidisciplinary teams function as one.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at The University of ManchesterElizabeth College, Guernsey
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Github Skills (46)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stephenwilley/cleanflight
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:43 pushes, 25 branches, 4 comments in 5 months
flightcontrollerfirmwarecleanflight-controller
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