Larry Baltz
Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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SeniorLarry Baltz is a Principal Consultant based in Barcelona with 17 years of experience crafting high-quality software and systems that create measurable business value. A former cofounder and CTO of an Internet startup, he blends entrepreneurial pragmatism with deep technical expertise across Ruby/Rails, networking, real-time and embedded systems, and fault-tolerant distributed architectures. He excels at architecting high-availability solutions and leading agile teams using XP and Scrum to deliver robust, production-grade software. Comfortable across languages from C/C++ and Java to Perl and PHP, he brings a rare cross-domain fluency spanning telecom protocols (SIP, RTP, H.323), infrastructure (Linux, UNIX) and domain engineering. Known for bridging system-level thinking with pragmatic web architecture, he often surfaces non-obvious reliability improvements early in projects that reduce long-term operational risk.
17 years of coding experience
French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
dotenv9
serpent8
12-factor8
rspec8
environment-variables8
typhoeus8
env8
beast7
magit7
logic7
ruby-on-rails6
emacs6
yaml6
rails6
ruby6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bitherder/qmk_firmware
Nov 2017 - Jul 2023
Contributions:57 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 9 months
controllerfirmwareavratmelusb
bitherder/bitherder.vim
Apr 2014 - Aug 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 4 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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