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
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (77)
python10
sql10
java10
scala10
big-data9
ioc-container9
flask-application9
flask-restful9
singleton9
factory9
apache-flink9
apache9
slack-api9
html8
api8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jameslafa/mining-massive-datasets
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 11 days
jameslafa/meeting-keeper
May 2020 - Jul 2020
A simple application to help keeping meeting agenda on track
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 months
keeping
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