William Powell
Senior Software Engineer at Wise
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Powell is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with four years of professional engineering experience and a track record of delivering reliable, user-focused backend systems in high-pressure, regulated environments. He specialises in Java and object-oriented backend engineering, having driven mission-critical features at Canva (classroom adoption, assignments, lessons) and built patient-facing video/chat for healthcare at Eucalyptus under tight deadlines. His consulting background at ThoughtWorks honed his ability to navigate ambiguity, improve scalability (Kubernetes migrations, stateless services), and embed SRE and test automation practices to shorten release cycles. At Tesco he boosted test coverage from zero to over 90% and increased release cadence, showing a practical bias for engineering quality and operational excellence. Notably, he combines a naval architecture background with software craft—bringing structured systems thinking and project leadership to complex distributed systems. He is currently continuing this work at Wise, focusing on building reliable products that improve people’s day-to-day lives.
4 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Abingdon SchoolComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at MakersMaster’s Degree Marine Technology with Honours in Naval Architecture, Master’s Degree Marine Technology with Honours in Naval Architecture at Newcastle University
English
Github Skills (5)
data-sync9
hierarchical8
micrometer3
micronaut2
prometheus2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
belarte/spring-petclinic
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
A sample Spring-based application
Contributions:7 pushes in 7 days
spring-bootspring-dataspringspring-samplejava
Tesco/aqueduct-core
Dec 2021 - May 2022
Hierarchical one way data sync
Contributions:5 reviews, 10 commits, 6 PRs in 5 months
data-synchierarchicalsync
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