Willem Larsen
Co-Founder at ELIASSEN
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorWillem Larsen is a seasoned coach and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience guiding software teams toward continuous learning and technical excellence, and nearly 25 years leading initiatives in team performance. As co-founder of Click Chain Academy and Agile Technical Coach at ELIASSEN, he blends pragmatic agile practices with deep facilitation skills to help organizations improve delivery and culture. He founded Language Hunters, authored learning frameworks, and runs the Thermodynamics of Emotion Symposium, reflecting his interest in complex adaptive systems and cross-disciplinary learning. An active tracker and Search and Rescue volunteer, Willem uniquely applies ecological observation and systems thinking to technical coaching and organizational design. He serves on non-profit boards focused on community education and rewilding, demonstrating a long-term commitment to place-based learning and language revitalization. Colleagues know him for translating subtle patterns—whether in codebases, teams, or natural systems—into practical learning experiments that accelerate growth.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
American Sign Language, irish gaelic, German, Spanish, Russian
Github Skills (17)
mob-programming10
refactoring9
antipatterns6
alchemy5
javascript4
nodejs4
react4
encryption4
mongoose3
expressjs3
typescript3
mobile3
codex3
mongodb2
claude2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
willemlarsen/mobprogrammingrpg
Dec 2016 - Oct 2021
A game for exploring the development practice of mob programming
Contributions:73 commits, 12 PRs, 70 pushes in 4 years 10 months
mob-programming
willemlarsen/retrospective-smells
Mar 2019 - Nov 2020
A repository of retrospective anti-patterns
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 8 months
antipatterns
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