Will Maier leads growth engineering at Stripe, where he's spent the last five years working across nearly every surface of the product. His background isn't CS — it's the history of science — and he's been through enough industry shifts (racking servers, the cloud transition, DevOps) to know when something really big is happening.
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In this season premiere of StaffEng, Will joins Alex and David to talk about what changed for him after November 2025, why he spent the holidays building a Lua distribution from his phone while doing laundry, and how he thinks about the organizational dynamics of AI adoption inside a large engineering org.
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