Geoffrey Sechter
Founder Principal at Lightstrike Labs
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeoffrey Sechter is a founder and principal technologist with 12 years of experience turning zero-to-one product visions into production-grade web, mobile, and AI-first solutions. He runs Lightstrike Labs end-to-end—strategy, sales, architecture and delivery—advocating agentic tooling and AI-augmented workflows that let a senior engineer outpace traditional teams. Comfortable with TypeScript, Python, React/React Native and data-driven product strategy, he also audits and remediates technically distressed codebases for startups and enterprises. His background ranges from building community-driven platforms and SEO-focused product suites to implementing operational DevOps features for projects like DjangoGirls and contributing testing utilities to popular Python testing libraries. Geoffrey blends quantitative rigor from earlier statistical and finance roles with hands-on engineering and UX sensibility, making him effective at guiding non-technical founders through complex product decisions. Based in Seattle, he focuses on sustainable, positive-sum outcomes and selectively scales effort where it will have the most leverage.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Economics (International Development & Environmental), BA, Economics (International Development & Environmental) at Washington State University
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Github Skills (22)
datetime10
python10
django10
datetimes10
dates10
testing9
postgresql9
aws9
re-store8
database-management8
documentation8
cloud-infrastructure8
backup8
devops8
react-native-ui-kitten6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DjangoGirls/djangogirls
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Website for DjangoGirls.org
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Geoffrey contributed to the DjangoGirls website by implementing password reset functionality, including templates and URL configurations, enhancing user authentication. They also integrated a command to create PostgreSQL database backups and upload them to AWS S3, improving data management and disaster recovery. Furthermore, the user added a link for password resets on the admin login page and made minor adjustments to the Patreon manager application.
djangodjangogirlspythondjango-girls
berinhard/model_mommy
Jul 2014 - Oct 2014
No longer maintained, please migrate to model_bakery
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Geoffrey focused on enhancing the functionality of the model-mommy library. Their contributions centered around improving the flexibility of the library by adding support for filling blank fields and implementing timedelta functionality for date and time fields within recipes. These changes aimed to simplify test data generation and make the library more versatile for different testing scenarios. Further improvements included updates to the documentation and fixing of a bug in the recipe definitions.
bakerymigrate
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