Will Mcneilly
Principal Engineer And Co-founder at Stora
Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWill Mcneilly is a Principal Engineer and co-founder with 14 years of experience building product-led startups and shipping full-stack web applications. As a founder at Stora he scaled the engineering team from a handful to 8 engineers and helped the platform reach 15% market penetration of UK self-storage sites. He blends hands-on Ruby and JavaScript work with team leadership, roadmap shaping alongside Product, and a habit of removing engineering friction so teams can move faster. His background spans early-stage mobile and fintech startups, React/React Native frontends and Node.js backends, giving him a practical, cross-stack perspective. Based in Newtownabbey, he stays close to the code while focusing on sustainable growth and operational predictability. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic founder-engineer who prefers shipping clear business outcomes over technical showpieces.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc First Class Honours Interactive Multimedia Design, BSc First Class Honours Interactive Multimedia Design at Ulster UniversityLarne Grammar
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
ios10
react-native10
cross-platform10
android10
react10
mobile-development9
mobile9
react-navigation9
router8
app-framework8
fade-out6
html6
sliders6
ruby-on-rails6
emberjs6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
willmcneilly/space-shooter-phaser
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 5 days
willmcneilly/fretboarder
May 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
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