William Cowell
VP Of Engineering at MyPass Global
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolWilliam Cowell is a results-driven VP of Engineering with 22+ years of hands-on software and leadership experience, currently scaling and stabilising engineering organisations at MyPass Global from Sydney. He specialises in transforming underperforming teams into elite, predictable delivery engines—demonstrated by turning a 35-engineer stagnant department into optimised squads and launching a cross-platform mobile app in five months. William repeatedly delivers at scale and low risk, having engineered 2000% platform scaling at Fanatics, zero downtime across peak trading at MuscleFood, and A$6M annual cost savings at the A-Leagues. He combines deep full-stack and cloud architecture expertise with practical DevOps, DORA-driven metrics and test-first engineering to accelerate lead time and reduce failure rates. Known for translating technical complexity for C-suite stakeholders, he also fosters sustainable career frameworks and an innovation culture that produced the company’s first AI-enabled features. Trained as a physicist, he brings a methodical, measurement-focused approach to solving high-stakes operational challenges.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Physics, BSc (Hons), Physics at University of Leeds
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Github Skills (36)
prism10
xamarin-forms10
wpf10
homebridge9
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csharp9
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visual-studio9
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dotnet8
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wc2/incremental-loading-collection
May 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
wc2/micro-service-fabric
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:65 commits, 29 PRs, 64 pushes in 6 months
minecraftfabricwith-serviceservice-fabric
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