Phil Wills
Principal Software Engineer at Accurx
Watford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhil Wills is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building data-driven systems, leading teams, and shipping production software that improves decision-making and user outcomes. He combines hands-on engineering, architecture, and people leadership from roles at Accurx, Snyk, Facebook, and The Guardian, often bridging product, analytics, and operations. Phil is a strong advocate for Continuous Delivery, close collaboration between engineers and users, and pragmatic use of data—having driven analytics platforms like Ophan and owned core account safety data at Facebook. He founded the open-source Scanamo library, reflecting a practical bent for simplifying data access in production systems. Comfortable moving between coding, coaching and technical strategy, he’s known for turning fragmented views into coherent launch plans and measurable improvements. Based in Watford with an MSci in Physics from Cambridge, he brings analytical rigor and a bias for delivering working code.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MSci, Physics, MSci, Physics at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (123)
guardian10
dynamodb10
sbt-plugin10
teamcity10
voting10
jarjar10
integrity10
java10
scala10
tax10
atmosphere10
sinatra10
functional-programming10
traceability9
rest9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
philwills/arthurwynn
Mar 2009 - Jan 2021
Crossword application
Contributions:54 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 12 years
crossword
philwills/cats
Jul 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:27 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 4 months
modularfunctional-programmingextensible
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