👋 Hi! My name is Will Lachance and this is my website. I'm a fortysomething software developer in Toronto, Ontario, Canada currently working at Voltus on demand response technology for the electricity grid.
General areas of professional focus include:
- Energy and Control Systems
- Data Engineering
- Developer Productivity Tooling
More broadly, I am interested in open systems, accountability, and helping people achieve their potential.
From 2011-2022, I worked at Mozilla (as in Firefox) in Data Engineering and Engineering Productivity. Older posts related to this are at archive.wrla.ch.
Other random facts:
- I am a nominal Zen Buddhist. I practice at the Toronto Zen Centre.
- I try to live simply: I use a bicycle for most forms of local transportation and try to limit my longer-distance travel to what's strictly necessary.
- I am mostly vegetarian (sometimes I eat mussels, oysters and other invertebrates).
- I prefer they/them pronouns.
I try to be judicious about using social media. That said, you can find me on: