Benjamin Lo
Senior Software Engineer at Laurel
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBenjamin Lo is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack and mobile products that improve productivity and user onboarding. He has shipped features across Android, iOS, and web at companies from Microsoft and Intercom to CircleCI, Loom, and currently Laurel, frequently working on activation, growth, and developer tooling. Comfortable across JavaScript/TypeScript, Kotlin/Java, React/React Native, Next.js, GraphQL and Rails, he blends front-end polish with backend reliability and observability tooling like Datadog and Honeycomb. Benjamin has a track record of turning prototypes into measurable product improvements—driving A/B testing infrastructure at CircleCI and interactive demos at Intercom that increased conversions. Trained as a mechatronics engineer at the University of Waterloo, he brings a systems view to software problems and a hands-on approach to shipping elegant, data-informed solutions. Colleagues describe him as thoughtful, thorough, and consistently eager to learn from and mentor others.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate and Ontario Secondary School Dual Diploma, International Baccalaureate and Ontario Secondary School Dual Diploma at Bayview Secondary SchoolBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
Chinese, Chinese, French, English
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Github Skills (134)
webscraping9
digitalocean9
instagram9
clicking9
stripe-payments9
textmate9
gatsbyjs9
flask-mail8
jsdelivr8
javascript8
flask8
python8
use-sound8
npm-package8
flask-application8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
benji011/dotenv
Jun 2021 - May 2026
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
benji011/portfolio.benjaminlo.io
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
My personal website (forked from Smakosh) open sourced using Gatsby, GraphQL & Vercel
Contributions:5 releases, 9 reviews, 95 commits in 1 year
gatsbyjsgraphqlvercel
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