Laurence Chen
CEO, Founder at Gaiwan GmbH
Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolLaurence Chen is a Taipei-based software consultant and founder with 11 years of experience building data platforms and backend systems. As CEO of REPLWARE he helps mid-to-large enterprises adopt on-premise Modern Data Stack solutions using open-source tools like dbt, ClickHouse/Postgres, Meltano and Metabase, and trains teams to produce reliable, maintainable analytics workflows. He also brings deep Clojure/ClojureScript expertise from work with Gaiwan GmbH and a history of delivering end-to-end systems across AdTech and embedded domains at LINE, Intowow and others. Known for translating vague requirements into precise technical specs, he blends hands-on engineering with practical operational design and a preference for deployable, long-lived systems. An electrical engineering MS graduate from National Taiwan University, he pairs academic rigor with entrepreneurial grit and a developer-first approach to data infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Taiwan University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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vagrant
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Github Skills (123)
monitoring10
falcon10
sql10
java10
time-series10
sql-query9
big-data9
presto9
database9
babashka9
vagrant9
expressions9
hadoop9
grafana9
runner9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
humorless/react-redux-crm
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
frontend for clj-crm
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 106 pushes in 5 months
cljclojurefrontendcrm
humorless/dotfiles
Mar 2019 - Apr 2025
My dotfiles/ vim plugin setup scripts/ Clojure dev environment vagrant file
Contributions:3 PRs, 102 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 1 month
vagrantvimdevvim-dotfilestmux
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