Will Thomson
Software Engineer at Octopus Deploy
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolWill 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
5 years of employment as a software developer
PGDipSci Computer Science, PGDipSci Computer Science at The University of Auckland
Spanish, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (123)
remote-server10
medical10
hangfire9
lichess9
bitboard9
dm9
react-native9
ios9
health9
octopus9
functional-programming9
scala9
typescript9
android9
chess9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
wlthomson/electron-bro
Jul 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:9 PRs, 11 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 1 month
openmsupply/msupply-rnr
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:70 PRs, 91 pushes, 56 branches in 1 month
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