William Warby
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorWilliam Warby is a senior software engineer and architect with over two decades of commercial experience, currently shaping product and engineering culture at Canva after a recent acqui-hire into Kochava. He blends hands-on systems design with technical leadership, having built high-throughput event pipelines, privacy-preserving geo-spatial filters, and scalable analytics APIs that process millions of events per second. Comfortable across C#, Go, Node.js, Python and modern front-end stacks, he chooses technologies pragmatically to fit domain needs and has deep expertise in service-oriented architectures, modular UI/UX and accessibility. William regularly mentors engineers, raises code quality through automation and standards, and has a track record of taking start-up innovations into enterprise environments. His background includes leading large public-sector transactional systems handling multi‑billion-pound programmes and designing tamper-resistant client-side trackers for fraud detection at scale. He prefers ethically driven organisations and is motivated by novel technical challenges that have positive real-world impact.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Github Skills (150)
multiselect10
autocomplete10
winapi10
modals10
angular-toastr10
ui-select10
owin10
data-field10
dotnet10
toastr10
cli10
angular10
net-library10
typescript10
csharp10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wwarby/walker
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
A free data field for Garmin watches to provide stats for walking activities
Contributions:22 releases, 2 reviews, 77 commits in 2 years
data-field
wwarby/TraktSharp
Nov 2014 - Mar 2019
A C# wrapper around the Trakt API
Contributions:92 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 4 years 5 months
csharp
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