Benjamin Lofo
Team Lead - Software Development at Lightspeed Commerce
Laval, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolBenjamin Lofo is a bilingual software leader and team lead with over a decade of experience building web applications and guiding engineering teams across startups and large platforms. He combines deep PHP/Laravel back-end expertise with modern JavaScript/TypeScript front-end practice, honed at companies like Shopify, FlightHub and now Lightspeed. As a former CTO, he pairs hands-on coding with product-minded technical leadership and proven delivery in Agile environments. His background includes revamping legacy systems, building e-commerce scaffolding, and instituting testing and security practices—skills rooted in early consulting and freelance work. Based in Laval/Montreal and holding a Master’s in Computer Science, he’s comfortable leading cross-functional teams in both English and French. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves projects from prototype to production while keeping developer experience in focus.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science - MCompSc, Computer Science, Master of Computer Science - MCompSc, Computer Science at Concordia UniversityDEC/DCS, Computer Science Technology, DEC/DCS, Computer Science Technology at Vanier College
French, English
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Github Skills (87)
json-response10
dynamodb10
json10
vscode-extension10
chrome-extension10
react10
laravel9
figma-plugin9
language-model9
voice-recognition9
speech-to-text9
aws9
php9
design-tokens9
charts8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lamungu/rdq
Jan 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:7 PRs, 162 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years
lamungu/fh-trip-builder
Jul 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
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