Brian Lawler
Staff Software Engineer at Wonder Workshop
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Lawler is a Staff Software Engineer with over 25 years of experience designing and building backend systems, specializing in Scala and the Play Framework and deep AWS operational expertise. He has led architecture and migration efforts across startups and enterprises—shaping products from Tribe.net to Cisco Eos, founding Pirc.com, and driving Auth Intelligence into production at Evolent. Brian excels at translating complex domains into maintainable designs using Domain Driven Design and clear visual documentation, and he has a knack for pragmatic automation that turned a week-long policy entry task into a minutes-long, load-bearing process. Comfortable both coding and architecting, he moved systems from microservices to modular monoliths to speed feature delivery while preserving scalability. Based in Fort Collins, CO, he combines an early start in C with decades of systems-level thinking and a persistent focus on empowering non-technical stakeholders through approachable system visuals.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering, B.S. Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (27)
dsl9
playframework8
crawling8
scala8
java8
lagom7
reactive7
akka7
akka-streams7
microservices6
distributed-systems6
jvm6
monix5
pulsar5
scalaz5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bplawler/crawler
Nov 2011 - Aug 2016
Scala DSL for web crawling
Contributions:50 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 9 months
crawlingdslscala
playi/sbt-playi
Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 review, 7 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 11 months
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