Wilhelm Eek
Staff Engineer at Eucalyptus
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWilhelm Eek is a Staff Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building resilient backend and frontend systems, and over eight years as a strong individual contributor. He has led migrations from monoliths to cloud-native microservices (GKE, Postgres, gRPC, Protobufs, Pub/Sub) and federated GraphQL architectures to speed cross-team contribution. Wilhelm pairs product-facing work—shipping mobile apps with React Native and native Expo modules for Bluetooth scales—with deep backend craftsmanship, including contributing to the widely used gqlgen Go GraphQL code generator to improve nullable-list handling and generated code quality. He’s experienced in observability and operational tooling (Datadog, OpenTelemetry) and has built in-house experimentation and feature-flagging infrastructure. Known for mentoring, interviewing, and pragmatic technical design, he balances rapid delivery with maintainable, testable systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (10)
golang10
graphql10
go10
schema10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
codegen10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
99designs/gqlgen
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
go generate based graphql server library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Wilhelm contributed primarily to the `gqlgen` Go library, a GraphQL server generator. Their commits focused on enhancing the code generation process, particularly concerning the handling of nullable list elements. They implemented changes in code generation templates, added test cases, and fixed type references. The user also refactored generated code and made optimizations.
golangcodegenartemissubscriptionsgraphql-tools
wilhelmeek/coc-artemis
Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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