Will Larson

@Lethain

CTO at @imprintpayments. Wrote some books.

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Joined March 2007

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Will Larson
@Lethain
Mar 19, 2020
A lot of folks want a map to Staff Engineer, and just as many Staff Engineers want to better understand their role. Towards that end, I'm working on a small project to collect folks' stories of reaching and operating as staff-plus engineers
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Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
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Will Larson
@Lethain
Nov 11
Although we try to spend most of our time heads down building and learning, this is a good milestone for @ImprintPayments: we’re shipping ~4x faster, incidents down ~80%, and it’s working. We’re also still very, very early on the path.
The $1.9B Credit Card Startup Quietly Solving Loyalty For Big Retailers
From upstartsmedia.com
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Will Larson
@Lethain
Oct 30
wrote up notes on how @ImprintPayments is adopting a self-reinforcing loop to improve correctness, anchoring on the verification pattern that @poteto has popularized. Curious what other folks are doing / what folks have found next step to be!
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Self-reinforcing quality / adopting verification pattern
After implementing the small-change pattern, Imprint Engineering’s next focus in improving our development loop has been implementing a verification loop for our software development. This is an...
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Will Larson
@Lethain
Oct 21
Love getting to chat with Gergely! Ty @GergelyOrosz 🙏
Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz
Oct 21
What’s changed in “the unwritten rules” of engineering management since the 2010s, why are hands-on managers “back”, and what has it done to the engineer-to-CTO career path? With Will Larson (@Lethain). Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 08:20 Stories from Yahoo! 12:47 Digg’s v4 rewrite:
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Will Larson
@Lethain
Oct 20
I'm hiring several key, hands-on engineering managers at @ImprintPayments. We'll work closely together. We'll build a product that a surprisingly large number of folks use as their top-of-wallet credit card. We'll use agents to rethink how software teams work. ✉️will@<handle>.com
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