# Oliver Wilkie > Senior Software Engineer at Figma Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/oliverwilkie An enthusiastic and pragmatic software engineer and manager. I take pride in getting things done and shipping things with external impact. Given any project I'm excited to roll up my sleeves, cut through the noise and make it a reality. My work so far has revolved around the theme of - building tools that help people to make money (see Square's Economic Empowerment values) - building tools that help move meals around cities - building tools that help move containers around the world I strive to be affable, and endeavour to be forever self-improving. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Figma Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Flexport Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States Senior Engineer on the Ocean team, responsible for building product for the core business. I lead projects that built tools for vessel tracking, shipment cost calculations, contract management, sailing schedules and bookings. Languages & Technologies: Ruby (+Sorbet), Java (+Spring), Typed Javascript, React, GraphQL, Postgres, Bazel ### Engineering Manager @ Square Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - Manager of Backend Engineers, Client Engineers and a Data Scientist working on Caviar Logistics and Operations Products. - Keeping the team focused on delivering externally visible value at a consistent pace. - Team recognized as consistent shipper of 'most-significant' features across Caviar. - Investing in people development - Hiring for the team - Promoting best practices across my team and other teams at Square. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Square Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Languages: JS (Ember), Ruby, Python Skills: Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture Design, Database Schema Design, New Service Launching, Testing, Prediction, Existing Service Advancement, Machine Learning, Ops - Technical Lead for all Logistics Products, Services, Systems and Decision. - Maintainer and Extender for our in-house tool used fulltime by 100+ operators and customer support agents - Lead the cross-company initiative for evolving many parts of Caviar's implementation to support future scale. - Mentor to new recruits and interns - Created the new onboarding process used by all new Caviar Engineers - Working on integration products that link Caviar Couriers to other Square Services like Square Cash. + a lot more! ### Software Engineer @ Square Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Languages: JS (Ember), Ruby, Python Skills: Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture Design, Database Schema Design, New Service Launching, Testing, Prediction, Existing Service Advancement, Machine Learning, Ops - Implemented problematic order detector and management tool used by 100+ operators. - Product Owner for in-house Live Ops and Support Tool. - Implemented safe, well structured money movement tool handling thousands of $ weekly. - Implemented best Practices as Caviar moved from Heroku to a containerized AWS-orchestrated environment. - Implemented a ELK Logging Pipeline for Caviar - Became Technical Lead for Caviar Logistics Engineering, managing and running the engineering sprint cycles. - Established Daily Standups format that was adopted across Caviar Engineering - Top Interviewer in Caviar Engineering + a lot more! ### Graduate Software Engineer @ Square Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Languages: Java, Ruby, Python Skills: Architecture Design, Database Schema Design, New Service Launching, Testing, Prediction, Existing Service Advancement, Machine Learning, Ops - Improving Buyer Facing ETAs and the auto detecting the taxonomy of Menu Items in Square's Order App - Implementing a new Caviar Pricing Model - Implementing a new suite of services and systems to support the new business Fastbite - Implementing a new CI pipeline for Caviar - Implementing Realtime Ops Courier and Order Tracking Tools - Improving robustness of missing critical services such as Auto Dispatch ### Software Engineer @ Black Pear Software Ltd Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | London Java Software Engineer working on projects in the UK Healthcare Industry ### Cohort Member 2013 @ Entrepreneur First Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | London Entrepreneur First is an early stage accelerator for top graduates who want to create high-growth tech startups. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Amadeus Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France Worked in the Departure Control System arm of Amadeus SAS, working to design and implement a full-blown self-service kiosk product for airline halls. Responsible for business analysis, product definition and development of the end product. This was an individual project that was completed in accordance with the mandatory industrial placement of the MEng course. The project began working alongside business analysts in London followed by the main development period alongside developers in the Côte d'Azur, France. ### Software Engineer Intern @ AKQA Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Worked as part of a large development team responsible for a new content management system for a major sporting MNC. Responsibilities included developing new components, and enhancing the capabilities of the current implementation. Further work included the launch of a Facebook App for a major Premier League football club and also an internal project based on the Spring Framework for the Java Platform. ### Software Engineer @ FISH Digital Forensics Ltd Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Developing and extending the Fish platform across different operating systems and mobile environments. ### Creative Technologist Intern @ 18 Feet & Rising Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Tasked with aiding and developing advertising campaigns using the most recent advancements in technology to emphasise and enforce the campaign objectives of important clients. ## Education ### Masters of Engineering in Computing Imperial College London Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ### Maths in Further Maths, Chemistry, Biology RGS Worcester Jan 2000 – Jan 2009 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/owilkie - Website: https://oliverwilkie.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/oliverwilkie JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/oliverwilkie/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22