Will Nahmens
Founding engineer and development lead who ships commerce and SaaS products to production. I grew a coaching SaaS to 12,000+ users and $25k MRR with a team of 6, and I lead an enterprise B2B commerce platform handling £20M in annual sales.
Experience
Software Engineer · Vendure
- Lead delivery of a multi-tenant B2B commerce platform for a UK industrial distributor. Vendure, Next.js, Payload CMS, Kubernetes.
- Connected the storefront to the client's ERP and Boomi for real stock, account pricing and credit status at checkout.
- Hardened production with PgBouncer pooling, Redis-aware health probes, search latency alerting and per-tenant e2e pipelines.
- Shipped to open-source Vendure: fixed a per-request stock query stampede, added per-queue job concurrency, translatable assets and dashboard bulk actions.
Founding Engineer · Connected Performance
- Grew the platform to 12,000+ users, 100+ white-label customers and $25k MRR, leading a team of 6.
- One codebase ships a PWA on each customer's domain plus iOS and Android builds.
- Built payments that have processed $3M+: Stripe Connect and NMI, memberships, public booking, ACH return recovery.
- Added an in-product AI assistant with MCP tools and voice mode.
Software Engineer · Elevantiq (formerly ALPIN11)
- Vendure B2B features for enterprise clients: organisation hierarchies, company accounts, ERP-backed account creation.
Earlier
- Senior Web Developer, WP-Stars, 2021 to 2024
- Web Developer, think modular, 2020 to 2021
- Lead Developer (part-time), Baseball Jobs Overseas, 2019 to 2022
Skills
Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Swift
Stack: Node.js, NestJS, Express, GraphQL, TypeORM, PostgreSQL, Redis, React, Next.js, React Native / Expo, Vendure, Payload CMS
Infra & AI: Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, AWS, Pulumi, GitHub Actions, Playwright, OpenAI and Claude APIs, MCP
Education
Occidental College, Los Angeles · B.A. Cognitive Science and Computer Science, 2017