Laban Eilers
Distinguished Engineer at SimpliSafe
Acton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolLaban Eilers is a Distinguished Engineer with 12+ years of experience leading architecture and platform initiatives that turn developer pain into high-velocity delivery. He blends hands-on engineering—spanning microservices, Kubernetes, AWS, SRE, and performant front-end systems—with servant leadership that empowers teams through autonomy, alignment, and clear intent. At SimpliSafe and previously as Director of Architecture at Vistaprint and VP of Solutions Architecture at First Republic, he built platform-agnostic PaaS, web platforms, and tools that measurably improved developer productivity and customer outcomes. He’s fluent in a dozen languages, favors unidirectional flow and immutable data for complex UIs, and actively applies functional paradigms within object-oriented codebases. Notably, his background in art and computer animation gives him a distinct eye for client-side UX and the creative problem-solving to squeeze “insane” performance from web apps. Based in Acton, MA, he still writes production code to stay connected to the craft while driving large-scale technical strategy.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MFA, Art (Computer Animation), MFA, Art (Computer Animation) at University of MichiganBFA, Art, BFA, Art at Cooper Union
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Github Skills (70)
jquery-plugin10
python10
data-size10
testing10
fallback10
slim10
serverless10
html5-history10
javascript10
jquery10
jsdelivr10
mootools10
revert10
lambda10
developer-tools10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
labaneilers/ish
Sep 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:43 commits in 1 month
labaneilers/grunt-hashly
Mar 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years
gruntjavascriptgrunt-task
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