Charlie La Mothe
Lead Software Engineer at Backblaze
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolCharlie La Mothe is a Lead Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building distributed systems and developer-centric platforms, currently driving architecture and delivery at Backblaze. He specializes in Kotlin, Spring Boot, gRPC, and API-driven design, and has led the creation of a Google Cloud-style IAM (RBAC) service and the adoption of Google's API and automated test design principles. Charlie is a hands-on technical leader who elevates developer productivity by integrating robust test automation, modern tooling, and clear API contracts across teams. He’s an active open-source contributor—most recently adding MongoDB BsonParser and UUID deserialization improvements to the widely used immutables project—demonstrating attention to serialization correctness in polyglot environments. His background spans GraphQL for large retail, migration of large MongoDB services to CosmosDB, and early work on eLearning analytics, reflecting both breadth and depth across JVM and distributed data systems. Known as the go-to expert on OIDC/SCIM, RBAC, and gRPC AIPs, he excels at distilling complex systems into practical, maintainable solutions.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of OregonBradfield School of Computer ScienceGerman, German at University of Tübingen
English, german (intermediate)
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Github Skills (12)
javas10
jackson10
mongodb10
java10
mongodb-database10
annotation-processor9
gson8
uuid8
builders7
builder-io7
testing7
builder-pattern7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
immutables/immutables
Nov 2018 - Mar 2020
Annotation processor to create immutable objects and builders. Feels like Guava's immutable collections but for regular value objects. JSON, Jackson, Gson, JAX-RS integrations included
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Charlie contributed to the immutables project by implementing and extending features related to the BsonParser for MongoDB integration, enabling UUID deserialization. They also merged branches and integrated the Fugue Option type in the criteria model. Additionally, they enhanced the Jackson repository tests by adding tests for UUID fields, ensuring proper serialization and deserialization.
value-objectsgsonjax-rsjson-objectsannotation
clamothe/immutables
Nov 2018 - Mar 2020
Annotation processor to create immutable objects and builders. Feels like Guava's immutable collections but for regular value objects. JSON, Jackson, Gson, JAX-RS integrations included
Contributions:1 release, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
value-objectsgsonjax-rsjson-objectsannotation
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