Will Ockmore
Senior Software Engineer at Currently Seeking New Opportunities
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Ockmore is a senior software engineer with 10 years' experience designing backend and platform systems, most recently as a founding engineer and de facto technical lead on Wayflyer’s ecommerce banking product where he co-designed payments, flow-of-funds, and service boundaries. He’s shipped high-throughput production services—scaling deposits to tens of millions and building an independent company-wide notification service—and previously delivered an AI image-similarity search over 10M+ images with sub-20ms responses using FAISS and per-tenant in-memory indexes. Will blends systems-level product thinking with hands-on engineering, having led Wayflyer’s company-wide AI tooling adoption (raising usage from <50% to >80%) and created developer tooling like an auto-configuring CLI to ease adoption. Comfortable across Python/Django/AWS and TypeScript/React, he’s an active open-source contributor (maintains httpx-retries and improvements to tmuxp) and learns new languages like Rust and Haskell in his spare time. Relocating to Sydney in May 2026 and open to senior backend roles, he thrives where architecture is still being figured out and teams need practical, people-aware technical leadership.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics at The Open University
English
Github Skills (7)
tmux10
python10
cli10
testing9
yaml9
pytest8
json7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tmux-python/tmuxp
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
🖥️ Session manager for tmux, build on libtmux.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the tmuxp CLI tool. Their contributions included adding the ability to append windows to an existing tmux session and modifying the behavior when running the tool from within a tmux session. The user also implemented unit tests for helper methods within the CLI and for the workspace builder, and corrected the import of the `mock` package in the tests. Furthermore, they refactored the `get_session` method to default to the local attached session.
yamlpythontmuxlinuxsession-manager
will-ockmore/httpx-retries
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
A retry layer for HTTPX.
Contributions:10 releases, 4 reviews, 14 PRs in 6 months
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