Carlos Lazo
Staff Software Engineer at PGA of America
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarlos Lazo is a Staff Software Engineer and empathetic technical leader with over a decade of experience building resilient web products and engineering cultures across startups and large companies. He began in embedded systems and military-grade test engineering before transitioning to product and growth-focused roles where he’s shipped scalable Rails architectures, led migrations to cloud and observability practices, and drove measurable business impact like $12.6M/mo in growth lift at Shopify. He’s repeatedly built 0-to-1 systems— from initial product rails at LinkSquares to international payroll at Justworks—and led teams through scaling, refactors, and incident response. Known for prioritizing people over product, he blends hands-on engineering with mentorship, on-call reliability, and cross-functional roadmap leadership. Based in Dallas, he also has experience in crypto-enabled fundraising and community operations, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and go-to-market savvy.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical & Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical & Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer & Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer & Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteFlatiron School
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (45)
sinatra10
wrapper10
netsuite10
haml9
api9
rack9
mongodb-driver8
rails8
typescript8
ruby8
coercion8
dsl8
microsoft7
electron7
vscode-extension7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CzigMeisterBrewing/site
Jun 2015 - Nov 2020
Code base for the CzigMeister Brewing Company website.
Contributions:6 PRs, 128 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 5 months
brewingbase-codecompany-website
carlosplusplus/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - May 2023
This repo will host '.' (dot) files for environment setup.
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 5 months
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