Koury Lape
Software Engineering Manager at RoadRunner Recycling
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolKoury Lape is a pragmatic software engineering manager based in Pittsburgh with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating web applications and developer platforms. He leads a seven-person product-focused engineering team at RoadRunner Recycling, having rapidly moved from senior engineer to manager while driving microservices, cloud development with GitHub Codespaces, and cross-team design system work. His background spans Ruby on Rails, TypeScript/React, NestJS, PostgreSQL and infrastructure on AWS, with a strong emphasis on performance, security, and developer enablement. Koury has institutionalized people-first practices—mentorship programs, professional development time, and 360 feedback—that improved hiring, onboarding, and team culture. He pairs day-to-day coding with process and tooling improvements, often automating operational tasks in Python/Node and migrating legacy systems into modern stacks. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance technical debt reduction with shipping customer-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Liberal Studies, Bachelor of Arts, Liberal Studies at California University of Pennsylvania
English
Github Skills (109)
catalog10
api10
open-data10
credit10
sitemap-xml9
dms9
ckan9
metadata9
iso9
publish9
dbpedia9
csv8
open-datasets8
job-queue8
pantheon8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kourylape/simple-bot-telegram
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 17 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
ckylape/quick-price-check
Dec 2017 - Oct 2020
Quickly cross reference various prices on technology products and get alerts when items go below a certain price.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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