Chris Lawlor
Software Architect at pymetrics (now Harver)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Lawlor is a Software Architect based in New York with 15 years of experience building scalable backend systems for analytics and high-volume data processing. He specializes in Python ecosystems—Django, Flask, Celery—and reliable infra components like RabbitMQ, Redis, and PostgreSQL, often focusing on the server side of full-stack products. At pymetrics/Harver he progressed from software engineer to architect, designing production-grade pipelines and services that support large-scale analysis. He’s an active contributor to Django tooling, having improved admin UX and refactored template and action handling in the well-known jazzband/django-admin2 project. His background spans startup and product-facing roles where he led development, deployments, and data workflows, bringing pragmatic engineering and operational experience to complex analytics problems.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
python10
django10
html-template10
python-templates10
code-templates10
apptemplates10
profiling10
time-complexity10
django-admin10
cpp-templates10
optimization10
apache9
htaccess9
django-forms9
html9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-admin2
May 2013 - May 2013
Extendable, adaptable rewrite of django.contrib.admin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Chris focused on enhancing the Django admin interface. They implemented model save options, including "Save and add another" and "Save and continue editing," along with associated redirection logic. They added page titles and model names to the templates to improve the user interface. The user also refactored the code to use template tags for view name resolution and updated action handling for clearer message displays.
contribpythonadmindjangoextendable
chrislawlor/dpt
Feb 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 1 push in 2 years
pythoncontrolledonboardingdjangoproject-layout
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