William Morland
Staff Engineer at Feeld
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Morland is a Staff Engineer based in London with nine years of experience building privacy-conscious, production-grade back-end systems across startups and large tech firms. He has deep expertise in anonymization, encryption, and data portability—work that spans roles at Palantir, Privitar and Meta and includes contributing to the well-known Data Transfer Project by adding Facebook photo export support. Comfortable both leading engineering teams and shipping code, he blends systems-level security thinking with pragmatic product delivery, from homomorphic encryption research to scalable API integrations. An Oxford and Cambridge-educated developer who also studies Portuguese, he brings a rare mix of academic rigour, privacy advocacy, and hands-on implementation to complex data-protection challenges.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level Maths Computing Physics Music, A-Level Maths Computing Physics Music at St Paul's SchoolOxford Media Policy Summer Institute, Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute at University of OxfordBA(Hons) Computer Science with Physics, BA(Hons) Computer Science with Physics at University of CambridgePortuguese Language, Portuguese Language at Universidade de Lisboa (University of Lisbon)
Github Skills (7)
javas10
facebook-api10
java10
data-transfer9
api8
apidoc8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dtinit/data-transfer-project
Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
The Data Transfer Project makes it easy for platforms to build interoperable user data portability features. We are establishing a common framework, including data models and protocols, to enable direct transfer of data both into and out of participating online service providers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 releases, 62 reviews, 197 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:William contributed to the Facebook Data Transfer Project by adding support for exporting Facebook photos. Their work involved implementing functionalities to retrieve and export photos, integrating with the Facebook API, and handling pagination. They also introduced code changes within Facebook auth and data transfer extensions. Additionally, the user focused on the creation of tests for the new photo export functionality, using Mockito.
datadata-portabilityonline-serviceparticipatingportability
wmorland/alfred-py3-default-browser
May 2022 - Nov 2022
A modern Alfred workflow for switching the default browser on macOS
Contributions:2 releases, 13 commits, 22 PRs in 5 months
alfred-workflowmacosalfredalfred3-workflowalfred4-workflow
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