Wyll’s Story

Hi, my name is Wyll.

I grew up on the west coast of Canada in British Columbia and, until now, where I’ve been fortunate to live for most of my life. Naturally, there’s a lot of nature in Canada, which had the effect of tying it quite close to my life.

This provided many recreation opportunities, and generally being close to nature. These interests have resulted in lots of different opportunities, one of which being my last job at a ski resort where I met Jack, ultimately leading to my working for TDS.

During university, I studied software engineering due to a general interest in computers, finishing my degree at the start of COVID. The timing resulted in my original post-grad plans getting benched, which is how I ended working at a ski resort. Before this the main tech stacks I worked on were ruby on rails and react, so this put my technical progression on somewhat of a back-burner, something I was looking to get back to with TDS. 

My interest in TDS was largely aimed at getting back into the industry, but also the flexibility provided in coming to the UK, and working remotely. I met a lot of cool people from here prior to working for TDS, so it definitely aided the decision in coming here. It's been nice getting to meet the UK team, as the company has so many people based around here, having a more social setting has been great. The consultancy aspect was interesting from a tech exposure standpoint and getting to see different ways people utilise it through different clients.

So far the work I’ve done with TDS has been based around SPA frameworks, so I’ve gotten to learn Vue in addition to re-familiarising myself with React. Working on the ERP application has been good as well, as it has provided me the opportunity to orient myself from a design perspective instead of purely feature driven. As I progress here I’m looking forward to digging deeper into different technologies.