James Lafa
Head Of Engineering - Workflows at Personio
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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SeniorJames Lafa is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building scalable, fault-tolerant backends and leading product-focused teams; he currently heads Workflows Engineering at Personio after the acquisition of his startup Back. A former CTO and two-time co-founder (Dentolo, acquired by Zurich; Back, acquired by Personio), he blends hands-on system design with strategic product execution to deliver people workflow automation at scale. Comfortable shipping full architectures from scratch, his technical roots span Go, Python and Ruby on Rails and include deep experience in distributed systems, continuous deployment and data-driven services. Based in Berlin, he pairs startup grit and acquisition track record with a pragmatic appetite for automation and developer-first platforms, and has repeatedly moved teams from prototype to production-grade infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (57)
python10
java10
sql10
factory9
scala9
flask-application9
big-data9
singleton9
html8
aiohttp8
flask8
flask-restful8
slack8
slack-api8
ioc-container8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jameslafa/jameslafa.github.io
Aug 2024 - Feb 2026
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 6 months
jameslafa/biteme
Feb 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:43 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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