William Woodhead
Software Engineering Manager at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Woodhead is a software engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading teams at scale across consumer and infrastructure-focused companies, currently at Meta after leadership roles at Cloudflare and EF Education First. He combines a hands-on engineering background—from front-end work at Rightmove and client engineering at Qubit to co-founding a startup—with proven delivery of resilient systems and team growth. Educated in architecture at Cambridge and holding an MSc in Computer Science from Bristol, he brings a design-minded approach to system and team architecture. Based in London, he balances product-minded leadership with deep technical empathy, often transitioning between startup agility and enterprise-grade execution. An early programmer and pragmatic manager, he’s known for translating complex technical requirements into clear roadmaps and shipping impactful software.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.), Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) at University of CambridgeComputer Science MSc, Computer Science MSc at University of Bristol
Github Skills (43)
markdown10
cloudflare10
universal-react10
react-redux10
cloudflare-workers10
mdx10
eve9
boilerplate8
wireshark8
wordpress-plugin8
wordpress8
ssa8
redux8
firewall-rules8
mls8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
william-woodhead/lightstack
Oct 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
william-woodhead/simple-universal-react-redux
May 2018 - Jan 2019
The simplest possible Async Universal React & Redux Boilerplate app, that works on both Mac and Windows
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 8 months
reactuniversal-reactredux-boilerplateboilerplatewindows
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