Will Raxworthy
Software Engineer (L5) at Netflix
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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RockstarWill Raxworthy is a pragmatic software engineer with 14 years' experience designing and shipping production systems, currently building Netflix’s asset ingestion platform to manage footage, VFX, sound and locked cuts across a production lifecycle. He has strong back-end and full-stack chops—Rails, Ruby, Postgres and Ember/GraphQL—developed through roles at AlphaSights, InfiniteRed and Kinesis and now applied at scale on media workflows. As a hands-on L5 engineer he mentors teams, drives architecture and champions developer productivity, having led migrations and platform stability efforts. Will is also an active open-source contributor to the notable octokit.rb GitHub toolkit, where he implemented content and repository-management APIs and improved tests and docs—showing attention to maintainability as well as features. Based in Canberra, he blends product-focused engineering with deep experience in data-heavy, domain-specific applications.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (14)
sdk10
github-api10
ruby10
api-design9
rspec9
octokit8
objective-c6
async-await6
ios6
uitableview6
activerecord6
rubymotion6
avfoundation6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
octokit/octokit.rb
Jun 2012 - Jun 2012
Ruby toolkit for the GitHub API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the implementation of the `contents` API, alongside the `archive_link` API. This involved adding new features, refactoring existing code, and updating documentation and tests. The user also made contributions to the `delete_repository` feature by implementing the necessary methods and adding corresponding tests. These changes involved modifying core client files as well as the associated test specifications.
apioctokit-rbsdkruby
emberlondon/companies-using-ember
Apr 2017 - May 2018
A list of companies using Ember in the UK
Contributions:19 commits, 9 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 1 month
emberjsember-addonember
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