👋 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:

• mastodon
• linkedin
• github