Kenny Lajara
Senior Software Engineer at finally
Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic
Summary
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Top SchoolKenny Lajara is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on backend experience building scalable fintech, agritech, and SaaS platforms using Python, Django, AWS, and Docker. He has taken on Staff Engineer responsibilities—mentoring teams, standardizing workflows, and improving reliability for services that support tens of thousands of users and hundreds of thousands of monthly requests. At Finally he reduced errors and automated reporting with Snowflake, and earlier work included performance gains using Scala and backend contributions to the popular CodeIgniter4 project (adding database-backed validation rules). Curious and collaborative, he favors practical, self-documenting code and brings a knack for simplifying complex data pipelines and deployment workflows. Based in Santo Domingo, he combines startup grit (co‑founder/CTO experience) with enterprise-grade operational discipline.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Universidad Catolica Santo Domingo
Spanish, English
Github Skills (12)
framework710
databases10
php-framework10
zend-framework10
php10
validation10
codeigniter10
sql10
validations10
sql-database10
tsql10
database10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 5 days
Contributions summary:Kenny primarily contributed to the CodeIgniter4 framework by implementing and refining validation rules. They introduced the `in_db` validation rule, allowing checks against existing database values and supporting filters. Subsequently, they added translations for this new rule and refactored the naming conventions for the validation rule to improve consistency. Finally, the user updated the user guide with documentation of the `is_not_unique` validation rule.
codeigniterphpframeworkcodeigniter4php7
kennylajara/RunUp
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
RunUp is a backup system that can be managed by command line. It is intended to be easy to use, fast and secure.
Contributions:31 releases, 273 commits, 12 PRs in 10 months
securetime-machinelinux-backupbackup-managertimemachine
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