William Lord
Staff Platform Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWilliam Lord is a Staff Platform Engineer based in London with a decade of experience designing cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and distributed systems. He currently shapes platform reliability and developer productivity at Wise while also serving as a Specialist Reserve Officer in the British Army, bringing disciplined leadership to technical teams. His background includes leading platform efforts at Luno and senior engineering roles at Wonga and others, showing a track record of scaling systems in fast-moving finance and payments environments. Comfortable across multiple programming paradigms, he translates complex system requirements into pragmatic, maintainable automation and platform services. Colleagues would highlight his blend of hands-on engineering with operational thinking and an ability to mentor engineers moving into platform-focused roles.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, Computer Science, 2.1, BSc Computer Science, Computer Science, 2.1 at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (78)
dashboard10
python10
grafana10
automation10
elasticsearch10
ssh10
monitoring10
ansible10
data-visualization10
mysql10
analytics10
prometheus10
visualization10
octopus10
visualize10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
williamlord/OctopusProjectBuilder
Aug 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
octopussource-control
williamlord/HealthMonitoring
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:41 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 1 month
healthmonitoringmonitoring-servicedocker
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