Will Thomson
Summary
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SeniorWill Thomson is a software engineer with 9 years' experience building full-stack cloud-native applications, currently at Octopus Deploy in Auckland. He has delivered systems across frontend (TypeScript, Angular, React), backend (Node, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS) and mobile (React Native, native Android/iOS), and has practical experience with Rust and C++ from earlier roles. Will is especially interested in distributed systems and IoT integration, having worked with MQTT/IoT Core and search platforms like OpenSearch. His background combines a strong academic foundation in computer science with a BA in Political Science, reflecting both technical rigor and a broader analytical perspective. Colleagues would describe him as a lifelong learner who prefers solving complex end-to-end problems and shipping reliable production services.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (84)
remote-server10
markdown10
mobile-application10
octopus10
octopus-deploy10
automated-deployment9
hangfire9
lichess9
bitboard9
android-application9
go-api9
baduk9
windows-service9
functional-programming9
scala9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
msupply-foundation/unified-codes
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
Provides a curated, searchable list of pharmaceutical products, each with an immutable code. A GraphQL API, a REST API and website are available for interaction with the database.
Contributions:215 reviews, 128 PRs, 253 pushes in 2 years
databasegraphql-apirestrest-apidgraph
wlthomson/electron-bro
Jul 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:9 PRs, 11 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 1 month
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