Summary
William Voorhees is a results-driven engineering leader with 15+ years of experience delivering cloud-native platforms and marketing technology for enterprise retailers and government customers. He combines hands-on expertise from roles at IBM, Nike and Pivotal/VMware with strategic leadership—most recently scaling marketing engineering at Kohl’s (10 teams, ~50 reports) and now leading performance marketing technology at Aritzia. He’s led major cloud transformations, re-architected loyalty and personalization systems that drove a 3% RPV lift and helped grow a retail media business to eight-figure revenue. Known for pairing technical depth (containerization, CDPs, composable event platforms) with product-minded decision-making, he builds high-performance teams through psychological safety, empowered ownership, and short feedback loops. A former cross-country cyclist who holds an MS in Computer Science, he thrives in the “messy in-between” of product and engineering where code directly maps to business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Oregon
BA Mathematics Computer Science Concentrations: Managment Studies and Statistics, BA Mathematics Computer Science Concentrations: Managment Studies and Statistics at St. Olaf College
English, Spanish