Will Larson
Chief Technology Officer at Imprint
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolWill 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.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Centre College
Github Skills (27)
visualization10
diagram10
python9
templating9
html9
django8
data-structure8
redis8
ajax6
cms6
technical-writing5
jquery5
javascript4
flask4
slack3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lethain/systems
Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
systems is a set of tools for describing, running and visualizing systems diagrams.
Contributions:91 commits, 3 PRs, 42 pushes in 4 years 2 months
diagramssystems-thinkingsystem-modelingvisualizingdiagram
lethain/Redis-Memory-Usage-Tests
Aug 2010 - Dec 2020
Collection of tests to measure redis memory usage.
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 10 years 6 months
redis
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