Will Olson
Engineering Manager, Workflows at AuChef
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Olson is an engineering manager and entrepreneur with 12 years of full‑stack experience, currently leading an 11‑engineer team at Procore to scale the Workflows tool from pilot to company-wide use while improving performance, availability, and security. He combines hands-on architecture and frontend chops—contributing UI and PropTypes improvements to the popular TanStack/table project—with a track record of shipping production Rails and React systems. As founder of AuChef he’s building LLM-powered products and running CI/CD with Docker and serverless deployments, showing a blend of product, growth, and operational focus. Prior roles as CTO/co‑founder and senior engineer at startups demonstrate his ability to lead small teams to large user bases (40k+ at Dringo) and to translate complex requirements into maintainable systems. Based in Reno, he brings an engineer‑manager mindset that emphasizes autonomy, accountability, and continuous improvement across distributed teams.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Bellarmine College PreparatoryBachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering at University of Nevada, Reno
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
typescript10
prop10
typescript-types10
props10
typescripts10
react10
hook9
datagrid9
datatables8
html-table8
datatable8
ui-design8
svelte8
pagination7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
TanStack/table
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
🤖 Headless UI for building powerful tables & datagrids for TS/JS - React-Table, Vue-Table, Solid-Table, Svelte-Table
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Will contributed primarily to the front-end aspects of the project, focusing on component development and UI enhancements. They added PropTypes to the core components, ensuring type safety and better code maintainability. Furthermore, they refactored and updated the existing code base, addressing linter errors and improving the overall code quality. Their work also included building and integrating new UI components.
solidjsdatagridsreact-jsvuedatagrid
frankolson/bugyourcongressman
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
An app built to help people contact their congressman about ending qualified immunity in 2020
Contributions:122 commits, 59 PRs, 76 pushes in 3 months
reactimmunityfirebasehelp-peopleending
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