I Haven't Opened an IDE Since November — Will Maier

About this episode

Will Maier discusses his experiences and insights on industry changes in technology and engineering.

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. Find us now also on YouTube: @StaffEngPodcoast In this season premiere of StaffEng, Will joins Alex and David to talk about what changed for him after November 2025...

People in this episode

Hosts: David Noël-Romas, Alex Kessinger

Guest: Will Maier

Topics covered

• growth engineering
• technology shifts
• DevOps
• cloud transition
• product development

Keywords

• growth engineering
• Stripe
• DevOps
• cloud transition
• technology shifts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stripe

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