Kai Lautaportti
Production Engineer at Facebook
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Lautaportti is a production engineer with 19 years of hands-on software experience, currently building and operating Facebook’s time-series monitoring service at massive scale. He blends deep backend and operations expertise—rooted in early Linux kernel builds and DIY hardware projects—with leadership experience from founding a peer-to-peer car-sharing startup and directing technology at a digital health startup. Comfortable across architecture, deployment automation, and observability, he values readable, elegant code and fosters teams that learn and collaborate. An active open-source contributor, he has strengthened compatibility and robustness in geospatial Python tooling (OWSLib). Outside of work he balances technical rigor with trail running, having recently completed his first marathon.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Proficiency in English, English, Certificate of Proficiency in English, English at University of CambridgeJapanese Study Program, Economics, Japanese Study Program, Economics at Kushiro Public University of EconomicsMaster of Science in Technology, Computer science, Master of Science in Technology, Computer science at Helsinki University of TechnologyRotary Exchange Programme, Japanese language and culture, Rotary Exchange Programme, Japanese language and culture at Sapporo Yamanote Koutougakkou
English, Finnish, Swedish, Japanese, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
python10
testing9
elementtree8
diazo6
plone6
ckeditor6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
geopython/OWSLib
Oct 2006 - Aug 2007
OWSLib is a Python package for client programming with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service (hence OWS) interface standards, and their related content models.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:8 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kai primarily focused on improving the robustness and compatibility of the `OWSLib` library. Their contributions include addressing potential errors in dependency loading, adding support for older Python versions, and updating the doctest runner. They also bumped the library version and updated project dependencies.
pythonosgeowmsweb-servicegis
hexagonit/hexagonit.recipe.download
Mar 2007 - Apr 2013
Contributions:69 commits in 6 years 1 month
downloadingbuildoutrecipe
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