James Lavin
Founder at Infocorder.com
Stamford, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolJames Lavin is a founder and seasoned Elixir developer with 14 years of software experience and a decade focused on Elixir/Erlang, functional design, and high-availability systems. He blends hands-on engineering—building bare-metal Kubernetes clusters with Cilium, CloudNativePG and Helm—with team leadership roles that delivered mission-critical financial and healthcare services. A PhD economist who applies econometrics and statistical analysis to product problems, he has built revenue-driving optimization engines (doubling profit-per-screen and later boosting revenue ~15%). Comfortable across database design/admin (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, graph DBs), Linux ops, and event-driven architectures, he also creates educational content via his ElixirZone YouTube channel. Entrepreneurial from early web ventures to founding Infocorder.com, he pairs product intuition with deep technical craft. He prefers Elixir but will use JavaScript under duress, favoring Svelte when he must.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Wayland High SchoolA.B. (magna cum laude), Government, A.B. (magna cum laude), Government at Harvard UniversityLondon School of Economics and Political SciencePh.D., Economics, Ph.D., Economics at Stanford University
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Github contributions (5)
JamesLavin/sync_repos
Oct 2019 - May 2020
Synchronizes all your Git repos (pulling & pushing commits) and auto-updates your Hex docs
Contributions:83 commits, 6 PRs, 50 pushes in 7 months
hexcommitsgit-addonsupdatespushing
JamesLavin/recursive_selective_match
Apr 2018 - Oct 2020
Library for testing nested Elixir data structures and ignoring irrelevant data elements and data structure subtrees
Contributions:2 releases, 91 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 5 months
test-dataelementstestingelixirnested-objects
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