William Heng
Engineering Lead - Lending at Starling Bank
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Heng is an engineering leader and software engineer with 11 years of experience building lending platforms and payments infrastructure across fintech and banking. Currently leading ~30 engineers across four locations at Starling Bank, he has deep domain expertise in lending origination, product lifecycle, servicing, collections, and real-time payments, and has built credit card systems from the ground up. Technically grounded—comfortable with core banking concepts like interest calculations, ledger postings, Kafka-based distributed architectures, and cloud-native deployments—he blends hands-on system design with servant leadership. His background spans fast-moving fintech builds (Zopa, Starling) and large-scale public sector identity work at NHS Digital, revealing an ability to deliver both greenfield products and highly regulated, scalable systems. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex banking regulations into practical, auditable engineering solutions while still mentoring teams and hiring for long-term capability.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence at University of NottinghamCambridge International AS and A Levels, Cambridge International AS and A Levels at Taylor's College Sri Hartamas
English, Bahasa Malaysia, hokkien, Chinese, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (37)
zeal8
desktop-application7
api7
api-documentation6
user-guide6
openflow5
mod-manager5
hook4
qt4
browser4
golang4
server4
devrel4
documentation4
code-coverage3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
william8th/monoplayground
Jun 2019 - Apr 2023
Contributions:46 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 10 months
william8th/javadocset
May 2017 - Nov 2018
A port of Kapeli's (Dash and Zeal) javadocset in Golang
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year 5 months
golangzealdash
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