Summary
Stephen Willis is a pragmatic Software Engineer II and solutions architect with over a decade of experience designing and delivering full‑stack web and cloud solutions, particularly in C#, .NET, MSSQL and modern front-end frameworks like React and Angular. He has led technical teams and driven product cadence and release processes at Tessitura and the Royal Shakespeare Company, consistently translating complex, business‑critical requirements into maintainable, well‑tested software. Notable achievements include engineering high‑impact e-commerce and ticketing systems that materially increased revenue, devising cloud architectures that secured significant capital funding, and delivering bespoke membership and payments integrations for major cultural institutions. Comfortable across the full lifecycle, he pairs hands‑on implementation with mentoring, CI/CD and DevOps practices, and has a practical knack for authoring standards and documentation where gaps exist. Based in Nottingham, he blends media production roots with rigorous engineering discipline and a history of reducing operational costs through thoughtful architecture and process improvement.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python, Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python at MITx Courses
Bachelor of Arts (B.A. Hons) Media Production, Bachelor of Arts (B.A. Hons) Media Production at University of Lincoln
English