W Betts
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Segment Developer Platform
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolW Betts is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of professional experience and 15+ years of hands-on platform work, currently managing the Segment Developer Platform at Twilio from Boise, Idaho. He blends practical architecture and day-to-day engineering, focusing on developer experience and scalable platform delivery for large distributed systems. Known for being an architect-minded manager, he helps teams convert complex infrastructure needs into reliable, production-ready tooling. A University of Idaho computer science graduate, he pairs strong technical depth with a pragmatic leadership style that emphasizes shipping, observability, and developer productivity. Unusually for a manager, he remains actively involved in design and implementation, keeping one foot in the code while guiding platform strategy.
14 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Idaho
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Github Skills (58)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
segmentio/kubeapply-internal
Jun 2025 - Aug 2025
Internal fork of segmentio/kubeapply
Contributions:3 releases, 10 reviews, 14 PRs in 1 month
wdbetts/gitops-promotion-demo
May 2025 - Jun 2025
Contributions:18 PRs, 28 pushes, 18 branches in 11 days
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