Summary
William Xie is a data-driven pricing leader based in Sydney with eight years' experience building production analytics and machine learning solutions to optimise commercial outcomes. As Market Pricing Team Lead at Blackwoods he has designed product-clustering and "Pricing Bible" systems, led price-evaluation models and automated end-to-end pricing pipelines on Azure (Databricks, ADF, DevOps) to drive margin and tender selection. His background spans hands-on ETL, web-scraping competitive intelligence, real-time inferencing with AKS, and recommender systems, complemented by earlier roles delivering BI, forecasting and NLP at Vin-Exchange. Comfortable bridging stakeholders and engineers, he combines commercial intuition with technical depth across SQL, Python/PySpark and cloud ML. An uncommon thread in his career is steady movement from frontline sales and market analysis into technical productisation of pricing, giving him both customer empathy and rigorous analytical discipline.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business English, Translation, Bachelor of Business English, Translation at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Master of Professional Accounting, Accounting, Master of Professional Accounting, Accounting at University of Adelaide
Australian National University
English, Chinese