Christian Laffin
Principal Product Manager at Sysdig
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Laffin is a Principal Product Manager based in London with 10 years of experience delivering cloud-native platforms and developer-facing products across large public and private sector organisations. He blends hands-on technical understanding—evident from his open-source cloud proxy project and infrastructure work across AWS, DigitalOcean and Hetzner—with product leadership that champions agile and DevOps practices. At Sysdig he progressed rapidly through roles owning customer onboarding, integrations and product strategy, shaping experiences that accelerate time-to-value. Prior roles at Wise, the Home Office and HMRC show a track record of managing Kubernetes platforms, data services and cross-team platform tooling for hundreds of delivery teams. He combines stakeholder fluency from developer to director level with a user-centric focus that drives high-quality, measurable outcomes. Colleagues note he often pairs product intuition with the ability to implement practical automation—such as CI/CD and proxy instance recycling—to reduce toil.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
London School of Economics and Political Science
Github Skills (11)
infrastructure-as-code10
digitalocean10
cloud-infrastructure10
proxy-server10
cloud-services10
python10
dockers9
cicd9
aws9
docker9
fastapi8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
claffin/cloudproxy
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Hide your scrapers IP behind the cloud. Provision proxy servers across different cloud providers to improve your scraping success.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:28 releases, 16 reviews, 158 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on building and configuring infrastructure for cloud-based proxy servers. Their contributions involve creating, deploying, and managing proxy instances across multiple cloud providers (DigitalOcean, AWS, and Hetzner), including the use of Docker and tinyproxy for proxy server setup. They also added features such as age limits to automatically recycle proxy instances and implemented CI/CD automation. The user also added support for an UI for the project.
proxy-servercloudproxyscraping
claffin/tripscrape
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Tool for scraping TripAdvisor and Yelp.
Contributions:4 releases, 28 commits, 18 PRs in 25 days
tripadvisorscraperyelp
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