Hello, I’m Wilson. I’m a customer-obsessed Product Manager with experience leading cross-functional teams that get things done.

Through my experiences as a software engineer, investment banker, and founder, I’ve developed a love for learning and building great products.

Toy company. Product Manager for Customer Experience.

LEGO

Digital payments solution provider. Product Manager for Developer Experience.

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ZOUMA

Award-winning e-commerce sustainable apparel brand. Bootstrapped as a solo founder. 

Starling Bank

Digital challenger bank. Software engineer for Credit.

REGnosys

Low-code platform for regulatory reporting. Software engineer for APIs.

Barclays Investment Bank

Sales trader for fixed-income listed options.

PROMETHEUS 🤔 . WHAT A metrics monitoring and alerting application that stores data in a time series database 🖥 . HOW It uses a pull mechanism to scrape remote targets for metrics exposed on a port with specific URI 🔌 . USAGE - Through a GUI or HTT
Definitely not how my desk looks at the end of the day 😅 Code organisation can be viewed in a similar vein ✔️ . You start off with a blank canvas, find a brute force method (could be a couple of methods), then you tidy it up 🧹Refactoring is a SKILL
HELLO WORLD 🌎 I’ve been posting for about 6 weeks now and I hope people have found some sort of enjoyment from my posts 😂 (sorry for all the Starling spam) 🙈 . Anyway a bit about me: ► I’m Wilson aka the volleyball from Castaway 🏐 ► B
IDEMPOTENCY 🧐 At Starling we have an acronym L.O.A.S.C.T.T.D.I.T.T.E.O. (lots of autonomous services continually trying to do idempotent things to each other) 🤨 . What is Idempotency? 🤔 - Do everything at least once and at most once 😮 - Essential
HAPPY PRIDE DAY 🌈 I started this account with the sole intention of only posting tech focused posts 🤓 However, the reality is that I’m not always coding 24/7 😮 There are days when I don’t touch code and instead focus on my other passio
APPLE WATCH RUNNING REVIEW⌚️ I’m an avid runner and have run with the Apple Watch for the past half year (including the London marathon) 🇬🇧 here’s my two cents 👌 . Nike Training - Can’t pause while running - Not a big community .
Why I’m not a fan of commenting code ❌ . 1. Maintenance is a lot of effort and at some point they’re going to be out of sync with your code (mostly by virtue of forgetfulness/laziness) 😶This will only cause more confusion… . 2. Yo
STARLING VS REVOLUT 4-4 🔥 . Penultimate Fintech league game and what a cracker👌Never hurts to have a bit of challenge bank rivalry 🧨 Just going to throw it out there, I’ve yet to lose a game do Starling (water boy counts right 😂) . #fintech
Hiding away in a corner here 🐭 OUTSIDE = 21° 🥵 INSIDE = -5° (well feels like it as we currently work in a big freezer) 🥶 . Extremely busy week working on a new feature to help you manage your money 💰Always exciting to start a new project,
SPOTLIGHT ON INTELLIJ 🔦 . SPEED 🏃‍♀️ The JetBrains team steamroll on and continue to make improvements to the best editor for Java (IMO) 🔥 It makes life so much easier once you get used to all the shortcuts ⌨︎ Extracting methods/variables ((cm
CSV. It’s easy to use, can be processed by pretty much every piece of software in the universe (don’t quote me on that 😉) and non programmers can export data from Excel 📊 . PROCESSING Pure Java through a BufferedReader, Apache Commons C
ZERO CODE DAY 🙊 The 15 inch screen’s starting to grow on me, shame it takes up so much pic space 👀 Touch Bar less so, anyone actually found a useful config? 🤔 Current uses are brightness, volume, and running unit tests 😂 I know, not the bes