Will Larson
CTO at Carta. Previously engineering leader at Stripe, Uber, and Calm. Author of An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management and Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track. Writes at lethain.com; approximately 1,000 posts across sixteen years. Known for treating Engineering Strategy as a written artefact rather than an emergent organisational habit, and for applying Rumelt’s strategy framework (diagnosis → guiding policies → actions) to engineering organisations.