Will Kiefer
Principal Engineer at Plaid
Washington, United States
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Top SchoolWill Kiefer is a Principal Engineer with 20+ years of software experience who combines product-focused engineering, team leadership, and architecture to ship user-first systems quickly and sustainably. He’s currently at Plaid after serving as CTO of Limitless (formerly Rewind AI) and has a track record at Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft where he balanced high-velocity iteration with scalable codebase practices. Will thrives in early-stage development and building collaborative teams, specializing in the pragmatic trade-offs between engineering speed and long-term maintainability. A Princeton A.B. in Computer Science alumnus, he also advises startups like Mento, bringing both hands-on implementation skills and strategic product judgment. Notably, his career oscillates between startup leadership and senior platform roles, giving him a rare perspective on shipping delightful product experiences at scale.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
A.B. Computer Science, A.B. Computer Science at Princeton University
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Github Skills (63)
objective-c10
ios10
react-native10
webview10
xcode10
plaid10
type-declarations10
carthage10
swift10
macos10
runner10
react10
cocoapods10
github-actions-runner9
oauth-client9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wkiefer/wkiefer.github.io
Sep 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 8 years 5 months
plaid/plaid-link-ios
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:11 releases, 24 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 3 months
ios-sdkplaid-iossdkplaid-linkswift
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