John Lawrence
Lead Software Architect at SOVATO
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Lawrence is a Lead Software Architect with 12 years building and scaling SaaS products using Ruby on Rails, iOS (Objective-C/Swift), and modern front-end frameworks like React and Vue. He excels at guiding engineering teams from prototype to production, bringing strong expertise in deployment, monitoring, API versioning, and resilient payment integrations. His background includes senior roles at Teladoc Health and PeerStreet and founding client-focused software services that blend technical delivery with small-business consulting. Based in Santa Barbara, he pairs formal training in electrical engineering and applied mathematics with hands-on coaching experience as a former lead instructor, making him both a technical architect and an effective mentor. Notably, he champions transparency and clear communication, translating complex technical tradeoffs into actionable plans for nontechnical stakeholders.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (5)
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Github contributions (5)
johnnylaw/Pyrobar-arduino-libraries
Jul 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 tags in 6 years 9 months
holdenschroder/scribby
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 46 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
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