Laurence Armstrong
Software Engineer at Atlassian
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurence Armstrong is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, customer-focused systems across startups and cloud giants. He has taken services from inception to production at scale—most recently at AWS and now Atlassian—while also leading a decade-long, evolving internal platform for an industrial group that migrated from Heroku to serverless Go on AWS. Comfortable across backend, serverless infrastructure, and React front-ends, he prioritises clean code, test-driven development and cost-efficient architectures. Laurence has a track record of improving reliability and scaling systems (e.g., processing millions of smart-meter and email events) and enjoys refactoring legacy stacks into modern, maintainable services. Quick to learn and pragmatic in communication, he pairs technical depth with a business-aware mindset that drives measurable product outcomes. Based in Auckland, he blends disciplined engineering with a hands-on love of problem solving and continuous learning.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Engineering at Massey University - Te Kunenga ki PūrehuroaNCEA Levels 1 2 and 3 Endorsed with Excellence, NCEA Levels 1 2 and 3 Endorsed with Excellence at Long Bay CollegeBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Auckland
English, Japanese
Github Skills (188)
linter10
code-review10
wamp10
magnetometer10
cli10
marks10
gitlab10
temperature-sensor10
lint10
wamp-protocol10
led-controller10
static-analysis9
dac9
github-app9
testing9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
LaurenceGA/go-crev
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
A cryptographically verifiable code review system for go packages.
Contributions:37 reviews, 183 commits, 43 PRs in 2 years
golangcryptographyverifiablep2psecurity
LaurenceGA/Pong
Feb 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 20 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 8 months
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