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Hi, I'm Will Norris.
I'm a follower of Jesus, a husband to [Elisabeth], a father to [Gabriel] and [Judah],
a citizen of the [indie web], and a software engineer at [Tailscale].

Prior to Tailscale, I was the Open Source Lead at Twitter.
Before that, I was at Google [for 10 years], with most of that time spent in
their [Open Source Programs Office] leading the engineering and license compliance groups.
I had previously helped design and build the [Google+ API],
having spent much of my career working on developing tools and technologies for the social web like
[OpenID], [OAuth], [XRD], and [Activity Streams].
I also spent a number of years in the enterprise identity management space
working on [Shibboleth] and LDAP directories at [USC].

Almost all of my personal projects these days are [indie web] related, mostly [written in go].

## Contact

I can be contacted by email at will @ this domain or by phone at +1 (901) 484-9455.
I'm "willnorris" on most sites and W6WJN on amateur radio.
I'm not interested in hearing about job opportunities.

[Elisabeth]: https://elisabethnorris.com/
[Gabriel]: https://gabenorris.com/
[Judah]: https://judahnorris.com/
[indie web]: https://indieweb.org/
[Tailscale]: https://tailscale.com/
[for 10 years]: /2020/09/leaving-google/
[Open Source Programs Office]: https://opensource.google/
[Google+ API]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google+
[OpenID]: https://openid.net/
[OAuth]: https://oauth.net/
[XRD]: http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/xrd/v1.0/xrd-1.0.html
[Activity Streams]: https://activitystrea.ms/
[Shibboleth]: https://shibboleth.net/
[USC]: https://www.usc.edu/
[written in go]: /go/

## Colophon

[This site] is powered by [Hugo] and [Caddy], and hosted on [Fly].
All of my domains are registered with [Porkbun]
(I still roll my eyes at the name, but they're actually pretty good).
Most images are proxied through my [imageproxy] server to handle simple things like dynamic resizing.

[This site]: https://github.com/willnorris/willnorris.com
[Hugo]: https://gohugo.io
[Caddy]: https://caddyserver.com/
[Fly]: https://fly.io/
[Porkbun]: https://porkbun.com/
[imageproxy]: /go/imageproxy