Summary
Will Madden is a seasoned software leader with 18 years of experience building full‑stack web products, specializing in JavaScript single‑page applications and Ruby on Rails backends. He has repeatedly scaled and restructured engineering organisations as VP of Engineering at Klara and Remerge and now leads teams as Senior Engineering Manager at Prisma. A two‑time founder, he co-founded Geddit and more recently Thunder Labs/Connected Living, combining product vision with hands‑on frontend and backend delivery. His career spans Melbourne, Berlin and a Silicon Valley accelerator stint, giving him cross‑market product and growth experience. Will is known for turning internal admin and client dashboards into scalable, production‑grade systems and for embedding engineering process discipline into fast‑moving teams. He brings a blend of technical depth, team building, and entrepreneurially honed product judgment that’s not obvious from job titles alone.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
English, German, Russian, French