William Hallatt is a seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native, data-intensive platforms and cross-functional engineering teams across Australia. Currently Head of Software Platforms at Advanced Navigation, he previously led software and data platforms at Fugro, delivering AWS-based workflows, near‑real‑time video streaming and high‑performance 3D visualisation for mission‑critical marine and subsea operations. He blends hands‑on full‑stack engineering (including Qt and IDE contributions in open source projects) with product and people leadership, having grown geographically distributed teams and owned technical delivery end‑to‑end. With academic roots in physics and computing and a graduate certificate in applied coaching and leadership, he pairs technical depth with a pragmatic focus on team development and delivery.
configurable custom Qt widget for showing waiting spinner icon
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Full-stack Developer
Contributions:46 commits in 11 days
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on developing a configurable custom Qt widget for displaying a waiting spinner icon. They ensured the widget's compatibility with both Qt4 and Qt5 versions by modifying include paths and conditional compilation directives. The user added features such as a new constructor and logic to support it, including options to automatically center the spinner and set window modality. Further contributions included refactoring and the addition of a copyright notice.
Contributions summary:William made several changes to the NINJA-IDE project, updating descriptions and fixing minor typos within the codebase. They also addressed integer division warnings and applied correct naming conventions to menu actions. Furthermore, the user implemented new functionality to enhance user experience within the file combo box context menu.
pythonpyqt5ideeditorninja
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William Hallatt - Innovation Manager - Software And Technology