Summary
Willow Mauldin is a founding engineering lead and full-stack software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, user-focused web and mobile products from ideation to acquisition. She has a strong track record as a solo founder—bootstrapping Fluidnode into $80K ARR across 18 customers by using TypeScript, Postgres, and modern hosting—and has driven measurable growth like 60%+ tee-time conversion increases and 100%+ membership lead growth. Willow excels at infrastructure and developer experience, bringing large systems into source control with Terraform/AWS, establishing CI/CD for monorepos, and reducing mobile app latency and crashes through thoughtful rewrites. She pairs hands-on shipping skills with strategic ownership in early-stage startups and product teams, making her especially effective at turning ambiguous problems into operational, high-uptime services.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer