Will Mcfarland
Head Of Development at Orbit
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolWill Mcfarland is a Head of Development with 11 years of experience turning big ideas into production Shopify apps and scalable web products from Victoria, BC. He combines hands-on engineering (Rails, React, Neo4J experience) with product and technical strategy, data-driven decision making, and team growth—having led app development at Orbit and guided process shifts at Pixel Union from Scrum to Shape Up. Will has built teams and architectures from the ground up, shipping integrated analytics and reliable infrastructure while staying involved in code and design. His background in computer science and music hints at a creative, systems-oriented approach to problem solving and user experience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc., Computer Science, Music, B. Sc., Computer Science, Music at University of Victoria
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Github Skills (17)
websocket8
nodejs8
socket-io8
javascript7
react6
server6
vscode-extension6
rets5
component-library5
typescript5
shopify5
realtime5
design-tokens5
application-framework5
figma-plugin4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wmceff/discogger
Feb 2017 - Jan 2022
uncover gems in discogs
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
discorddiscogsgems
wmceff/victoria-trees
Aug 2019 - Jan 2022
A tool for identifying the trees close to you in Victoria, BC
Contributions:52 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
closevictoriapythontrees
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