Will Melbourne
Lead Software Engineer at Arrival
West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolWill Melbourne is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, data-driven systems and leading cross-functional teams from West Vancouver. He combines hands-on expertise in Java, Python, Go and Haskell with production-grade tooling—Kubernetes, Terraform, Airflow, ElasticSearch and observability stacks—to deliver resilient, modular architectures at Arrival and prior startups. Will favors clean, object-oriented design, automated testing and reusable components to reduce long-term maintenance costs, and pairs technical rigor with business sensitivity to sell and shape solutions with stakeholders. He has a history of operating across full stacks and large datasets—from cashflow forecasting at Fluidly to high-scale marketplace services at Freelancer—and enjoys turning complex domain problems into elegant, testable systems. An engineer who values mentorship and collaboration, he deliberately blends product thinking with architecture to keep teams aligned and customers excited.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Mechanical Engineering, BEng, Mechanical Engineering at The University of SheffieldCertificate, Project Management, Systems Analysis & Design, Ecommerce, JAVA, C++, Relational Database Design, Certificate, Project Management, Systems Analysis & Design, Ecommerce, JAVA, C++, Relational Database Design at BCIT3 A Levels & 10 GCSEs, maths, physics, chemistry, 3 A Levels & 10 GCSEs, maths, physics, chemistry at Beechen Cliff School, Bath
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Github Skills (171)
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javascript10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vancouverwill/php_algorithms
Jan 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:17 pushes in 6 years 11 months
vancouverwill/reactJsPortfolio
Jun 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:181 commits, 125 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 6 months
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