Will Maier Email & Phone Number

South San Francisco, California, Us

- Leading a rapidly growing team delivering personalization and ML systems in the Stripe dashboard.

South San Francisco, California, Us

- Led the teams that delivered Treasury to GA in the US, as well as other financial products in beta (Corporate Card).- Owned bank integrations for banking-as-a-service, leading the integration of entirely new partners (CRB) to enable new products (Issuing Charge Card). Played a key role in Stripe's response following the collapse of SVB in March, 2023.- Developed and scaled a quantitative approach to execution reviews, adopted across multiple major orgs.- Invited to join the corporate strategy team as an honorary member, frequent contributor to analysis and strategy on topics in fintech and banking.

- Led information security, cloud & data infrastructure, and (outsourced) IT functions, reporting to the CTO and the board of directors.- Established the information security compliance program, successfully completing the company's first SOC 2 Type 2 and diligence with enterprise customers including Walmart, Atlantic Health Systems, and PayPal. Defined and executed company strategy to comply with new privacy regulations (CCPA).- Led quarterly and annual risk assessments across the governance, risk, and compliance teams, presenting to the board and building on lightweight quantitative modeling (including Factor Analysis of Information Risk/FAIR).

San Francisco, California, Us

- Led delivery of full suite of APIs to market for banking-as-a-service.- Managed internal information security and technology risk management efforts, including implementation of NIST CSF and quantitative risk assessment practices.- Worked directly with clients and prospects and acted as their advocate internally, measuring service performance and championing quality and reliability.- Coordinated global delivery efforts across teams in Portland, Madrid, San Francisco, and elsewhere in the US.- Personally designed and built core cloud architecture, including CI/CD with codebuild, egress filtering through envoy deployed in fargate, and various tools to support polyglot development in a bazel monorepo.

Portland, Us

- Led the engineering organization, with more than 80 engineers across web, mobile, backend systems, cloud/infrastructure, and data.- As member of the executive leadership team, developed technology and company strategy and managed the largest payroll budget in the company.- Partnered closely with senior product leadership and organized into cross-functional product and platform teams.- Increased diversity and inclusiveness of the engineering organization, rapidly achieving majority proportion of engineers from underrepresented backgrounds among new recruits.- Scaled distributed engineering culture, with nearly 40% of the product and engineering organizations working remotely from coast to coast.- Worked with engineering management and product management teams to make continuous improvement through kanban a core part of the organization’s culture.

Portland, Us

- Led a team of operations engineers focused on making it possible for Simple to scale, deliver reliable service, and ship to our customers quickly.- Responsible for hiring, performance management, and career development; grew team from 2 to 8 through late stage funding and acquisition by BBVA.- Expanded Simple’s unique approach to incident response from engineering and operations to the entire company (presented later in a conference talk).

Portland, Us

- Developed custom AWS Cloudformation automation software (described later in a company blog post) to migrate from EC2 to VPC.- Designed and managed one of the first fintech architectures in AWS to achieve PCI Level 1 certification.- Developed continuous integration tooling to enable rapid deployments in a complex polyglot service oriented architecture.

Madison, Wi, Us

- Developed custom software to run monte carlo simulations and other physics analysis on the Open Science Grid and around the world.- Automated the management of petabytes of physics data stored in HDFS on hundreds of commodity servers.- Managed one of the largest university datacenters in the US participating in the analysis and eventual discovery of the Higgs Boson.