William Montgomery
Chief Product Officer at Thought Machine
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWilliam Montgomery is a seasoned technology and product leader with 14 years of experience building large-scale systems and banking software, now serving as Chief Product Officer at Thought Machine after a decade as its CTO. He combines deep engineering chops in Python, Java, App Engine and information retrieval with practical machine learning experience honed during tenures at Google working on Ad Exchange/AdSense and early App Engine projects. His career blends hands-on systems design and product strategy, moving from enterprise integrations and bespoke accounting/VOIP tools to architecting cloud-native core banking platforms. Notably, he pairs Cambridge and Edinburgh computer science credentials with rare continuity at a single scale-up, guiding its technical vision through hypergrowth. Colleagues value his ability to translate research-grade technologies into reliable, production-ready services that meet strict operational and regulatory demands. Based in England, he brings a pragmatic, engineer-first approach to product leadership and platform evolution.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science, B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science at The University of EdinburghMPhil Computer Science, MPhil Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (34)
cockroachdb10
sql10
database10
mysql9
postgresql9
buck9
please-build9
pants9
build-system9
bazel9
go9
sql-database9
directive9
distributed-database9
extensible9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thought-machine/python-zipkin
Apr 2016 - Jun 2019
Zipkin API for python
Contributions:3 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
apipythonzipkin
csdigi/es6ify
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
es5transformjavascriptcompileon-the-fly
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