William Archbell
Head Of Platform Technology
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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SeniorWilliam Archbell is a seasoned software engineering leader with 17 years of experience building high-performance platform, networking, graphics, and UI systems for industry leaders including Citadel Securities, Riot Games, 343 Industries, Microsoft, and HTC. As Head of Platform Technology he combines hands-on systems engineering with people leadership, having scaled teams from small prototypes to 30+ engineers and shipped multiplayer game features and consumer platforms to millions globally. His background spans real-time networking, gameplay systems, rendering, and serialization—evidenced by contributions to the parallel ECS specs project improving save/load capabilities. Comfortable in high-pressure, deadline-driven environments, he is adept at bridging product strategy, security/compliance, and technical execution across large organizations. Based in Miami, he brings a rare blend of deep engine-level expertise and proven operational leadership.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
data-structures10
data-serialization10
rust10
amazon-ecs10
data-structure10
serialization10
proc-macro9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
amethyst/specs
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Specs - Parallel ECS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the `specs` repository, focusing on enhancements related to serialization and data structures. They added functionality for serializing and deserializing data, specifically including a count for serialization purposes. Furthermore, the user worked on exposing paired storage and added support for enum and enum field attributes to the save/load derive macro. These changes improve the flexibility and completeness of the serialization capabilities within the parallel ECS system.
ecsparallelrustparallel-ecsspecs
Azaril/screeps-cache
Apr 2020 - Feb 2026
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 10 months
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