Lar Van Der Jagt
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Code Confab
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLar Van Der Jagt is a product-oriented Staff Infrastructure Engineer with 18 years of experience building reliable, cost-efficient distributed systems and platform tooling. He has founded and led engineering teams and agencies—most recently at ThreeFlow and as co-founder of Code Confab—helping clients simplify architectures, cut AWS spend, and scale video streaming and e-commerce platforms. At Tuft & Needle he grew a Platform Engineering team from scratch, introduced multi-account IaC and HashiCorp tooling, and drove observability and testing improvements that made Black Friday/Cyber Monday nearly incident-free. Comfortable as a systems thinker on cross-functional teams, Lar blends hands-on engineering, DevOps, and product focus to turn operational pain points into revenue-driving features. Based in New York, he brings deep Ruby on Rails roots from agency work and a track record of shipping pragmatic infrastructure that balances reliability, security, and cost.
18 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (113)
terraform10
infrastructure10
declarative10
dockerfile10
terraform-module10
hybrid10
javascript10
terraform-cloud10
hashicorp10
docker-compose10
browser10
compose10
compiler10
cli10
buildkite10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
supaspoida/bip
Apr 2008 - Apr 2010
Contributions:22 commits in 2 years
supaspoida/eleventyone
Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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