William Flynt
Senior Principal Engineer at Xero
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Flynt is a Senior Principal Engineer and founder-turned-enterprise technologist who blends hands-on software craftsmanship with people-centered product strategy. With roots in tinkering on 2400-baud hardware and a decade-plus of leadership spanning startup founding (Ivy Data, Ferrovia) to senior roles at Amazon and Xero, he excels at automating customer-focused systems and scaling engineering teams. He brings a rare mix of operational rigor from his time as a USAF fighter pilot and mission commander together with delivery experience in cloud-native stacks, currently enjoying building with Go, EdgeDB, and Nomad. His work has helped nearly 10,000 real estate professionals sharpen marketing through automation, and he pairs that entrepreneurial grit with an MBA and an MS in Computer Science to bridge product, people, and platform decisions.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Operations Research, Bachelor of Science - BS Operations Research at United States Air Force AcademyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderMaster of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General at University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business
Github Skills (124)
django-models10
stripe10
django9
text-based9
micro9
command-line9
web-vitals9
text-editor9
billing9
local-database9
finance9
fintech9
django-orm9
linux8
golang8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ivy-re-tech/ivy-parsing-api
Nov 2019 - Mar 2022
A simple parsing API for names and addresses.
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
parsingapiaddressesparser
williamflynt/quickplan
Jun 2022 - Apr 2025
Project planning with critical path analysis.
Contributions:44 PRs, 122 pushes, 46 branches in 2 years 10 months
criticalcritical-pathpath-analysisproject-planningplanning
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