Willem Basson
Senior Software Engineer Tech Lead at Houseful
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWillem Basson is a senior software engineer and tech lead based in London, with a track record of shipping robust, scalable systems across ecommerce and media platforms. He currently leads engineering at Houseful as Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead, guiding architecture and delivery since 2015. His career includes software architecture at Amazon and leadership roles at Microsoft and LOVEFiLM, bringing deep expertise in Perl, Solr, and MySQL. Early roles at Cedar Communications and Arrow Interactive grounded his foundation in web development and problem solving, supported by a BSc and BSc(Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Pretoria. He combines hands-on coding with architectural oversight and team leadership, delivering reliable systems while mentoring engineers across regions.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
RandburgUniversity of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (2)
adapter6
playstation4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
willembasson/c3p
May 2023 - Nov 2023
Multi purpose copy tool
Contributions:3 releases, 17 PRs, 28 pushes in 6 months
willembasson/recipe-scrapers
Nov 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 months
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