# Will S. > experienced software engineer and technical leader Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/wills1 An experienced engineer with a passion for building high performance teams and technology. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Rippling Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA Tech Lead, Identity Platform ### Staff Software Engineer @ Rippling Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, CA Building out a new vertical within IT Products; currently in semi-stealth ### Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead Manager @ Moxion Power Co. Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Software Tech Lead for Moxion Power. I started out as the only Cloud software engineer and hired a team of 8 [ 4 backend, 4 frontend ] over the course of 2+ years. I worked closely with Product, Design and our various Program teams to build out tools and products that served internal and external facing customers. Tech lead for the Digital organization, which includes Firmware, Cloud Software, IT, and Enterprise Business systems. I've developed a high-performance IoT backend for sensor data, architected our backend and frontend applications, advised on embedded software platform choices and telemetry, and written manufacturing automation software. I've written all of or IaaC and manage all of our cloud infrastructure. Currently building out our IoT OTA, Secure Boot, and Code Signing PKI infrastructue using AWS [ PCA, KMS, IOT Core, etc. ] and Hardware HSMs. ### Software Engineer @ Camus Energy Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 I was the second full-time Software Engineer hired at the company; we went from a scrappy team of eight or so people in a garage, to a well funded company working with some of the leading electrical cooperatives in the country. Helping to build a lightweight Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) for Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Building frontend [ typescript ], backend [ Go, Python, Kubernetes ], and ML applications. ### Staff Software Engineer, Security @ Uber Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Workload Identity, Service to Service Authentication, SPIFFE/SPIRE, PKI. Also worked on Personnel authentication and authorization, Federated OIDC, AuthN/AuthZ application middleware, distributed security context trace propagaion. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Uber Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Location services engineer working on location search, reverse geocoding and recommendation systems. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Uber Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Location services engineer working on location search, reverse geocoding and recommendation systems. ### Software Engineer @ Uber Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Responsibilities include: prototyping new rider-facing features ( Airport Venues, Suggested Pickup Locations, etc. ) and maintaining and improving existing spatial services ( Location Search, Geocoding, Favorite Locations, etc. ). ### Software Engineer @ Apple Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Cupertino, CA OS X Integration Engineer ### Electrical Engineer @ Sparkplug Power Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Cambridge, Massachusetts Helped design, develop and implement an intelligent, commercial energy-storage system. ### Electrical Engineer @ Autoliv Electronics Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Electrical Engineering Co-Op working with the embedded software team on automotive radar development. ### Unix Administrator @ Tufts University Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Assistant Unix and Open Source Software Admin. The position involves providing Unix workstation and server support for the Arts, Sciences and Engineering departments. Time is split between providing end-user support and working on long term projects. Some long term projects include developing infrastructure for GPGPU computing and full desktop virtualization, moving the Tufts Perseus Project into the Amazon Cloud and developing high throughput computing using BOINC and The Condor Project. ### Trip Leader @ Kieve Wavus Education, Inc. Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 Trip leader at a wilderness camp for teenagers based in Nobleboro, ME. Trips include canoeing in and around Baxter State Park and a three week intensive program backpacking along the Appalachian Trail and sea kayaking in Acadia National Park. ## Education ### BSCPE in Computer Engineering Tufts University ### High School in High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates The Lawrenceville School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/willsalisbury - Portfolio: https://willsalz.co --- Source: https://flows.cv/wills1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/wills1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31