Lance Willett
Chief Quality Officer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress and WooCommerce. Decade-plus tenure working in the open on software that powers a large share of the web, after years as an independent agency owner.
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About Lance Willett
Lance Willett is Chief Quality Officer at Automattic, the distributed company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and a suite of products built around the open web. His remit spans the quality function across a business whose mission is democratizing publishing, commerce, and messaging at global scale.
Lance started as an independent web developer in Tucson building sites for an outdoor mountaineering store. He ran his own agency for five years before joining Automattic for what became a decade-plus tenure, initially recruited into the theme team because he is a hybrid designer-developer who did not fit a pure design or pure code role. He was drawn by the company's distributed working model and its commitment to working in the open on software that powers a significant share of the web.
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