Jack Laplante
Senior Software Engineer at Toast
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Laplante is a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years building distributed systems and full-stack products, currently contributing to Toast after a tenure at Google where he developed and maintained 20+ business integrations for hotel booking. He combines deep experience in Java, C#, microservices, cloud computing, custom networking and serialization with a strong practice of test-driven development. As the creator and owner of Skullborn, an MMO played by thousands, he led the project end-to-end from design through release, honing product instincts alongside technical execution. His background spans startups and large tech firms, giving him both the speed of small teams and the rigor required for production at scale. Jack prioritizes hyper-efficient, readable code and enjoys solving hard problems that directly improve user value. A detail that sets him apart is his cross-domain fluency—shipping games and enterprise integrations—showing versatility beyond typical backend or frontend specialization.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (4)
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gift8
toast7
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
toasttab/GC-API-example-implementation
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
An example implementation of the Toast Gift Card API
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 11 months
apiapi-cardgift-cardgifttoast
toasttab/Loyalty-API-example-implementation
Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
An example implementation of the Toast Loyalty API
Contributions:23 commits in 9 months
apiloyaltytoast
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