About

Will Laurance is an experienced software engineer with over 10 years of relevant experience. He is currently working as an Integration Engineer at Stripe, where he collaborates with the company's most strategic enterprise users, talks to engineers, and learns the vast surface area of the Stripe API. Will is a recovering entrepreneur who is gearing up for another at-bat. Will's specialties include technical SEO, ethical stream analytics and event tracking, and full-stack performance solutions. He is also the technical lead on an internal tools team at Stripe, where he helps other sales and technical support folks gain context about a user's integration quickly. He is building the underlying software and data to power such applications. In his past roles, Will has worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Solertium Corporation and CreativeLive. At Solertium Corporation, he worked on the Market2day application, which allowed shoppers in Boston to pre-order fresh farmer's market goods directly from farmers themselves. He also worked on the beta version of Aidin's post-care referral engine software, which connects hospitals to local providers with a modern web application that can still interface with legacy technology such as phone and fax machines. At CreativeLive, he was a founding member of the growth team, where he implemented technical SEO on over 1600 classes and 25K lessons and built and ran A/B experiments to increase purchase conversion. Will has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and studied Computer Science at Thomas Nelson Community College. He is currently writing a course on building modern web apps with PostgreSQL. When he is not coding, he is learning about self-improvement, marketing, or reading a good sci-fi novel. Will is a skilled software engineer with a passion for building products that help people.