Summary
Will Larson is a seasoned technology executive with 18 years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations and infrastructure for high-growth consumer and developer platforms. Currently CTO at Imprint, he previously led engineering and data science as Calm’s CTO and founded Foundation Engineering at Stripe, growing teams from dozens to hundreds while shipping major integrations and platform reliability improvements. His track record spans consumer growth (Calm’s multi-fold revenue and downloads expansion), developer-facing infrastructure (Stripe’s internal tools and reliability), and fintech/product scaling at Carta. An author of well-regarded books on engineering management, he combines hands-on systems experience from early roles at Digg, Uber, and Yahoo with executive strategy. Will is based in San Francisco and known for turning nightmarish operational pain points into repeatable systems and culture that sustain rapid product evolution.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Centre College