William Petchey
Software Engineer at Rocket Software
Coventry, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Petchey is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently at Rocket Software and specialising in Angular and C++. He holds an MSc in Computer Science (Distinction) and began his career building data-enriched UI prototypes for airline operations, combining backend work in Python/PostgreSQL with frontend Svelte and JavaScript. At OpenText he progressed from graduate engineer roles to production-facing responsibilities, demonstrating an ability to move research prototypes into maintainable products. Based in Coventry, he bridges strong algorithmic foundations from a Physics & Astrophysics BSc with practical web and systems engineering. He favours clear, data-driven UI design and has a track record of turning complex, domain-specific data into actionable insights.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science, Distinction, Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science, Distinction at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (26)
reproducible-research10
morphology9
traits9
data-analysis8
digital-humanities8
ecology8
journal7
meta-analysis7
scopus7
correspondence-analysis7
coupling7
tsne6
science5
quantitative5
r5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
opetchey/RREEBES
Feb 2015 - Dec 2020
Reproducible Research in Ecology, Evolution, Behaviour, and Environmental Studies
Contributions:207 commits, 53 PRs, 190 pushes in 5 years 11 months
reproducible-research
UZH-PEG/microxanox
Jun 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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