Laurence Smith
Senior Software Engineer at WooliesX
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurence Smith is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with 19 years in professional development and over 13 years focused on .NET, currently delivering features at WooliesX from Greater Sydney. A pragmatic full-stack developer, he bridges C#/WCF/WebAPI backends and AngularJS/Redux frontends while also designing Python/Flask APIs and Postgres-backed services for distributed systems. His career includes leading technical efforts and rapid prototyping—most recently as Technical Lead at Ansarada—and hands-on work building RabbitMQ messaging, API facades, and Dockerized deployments. Laurence has deep experience modernizing legacy .NET desktop applications into web-first architectures and unifying multiple legacy endpoints behind resilient services. Comfortable across Linux environments and CI-friendly tooling, he blends systems thinking with practical engineering to reduce operational friction. Colleagues would notice his knack for turning fragmented legacy landscapes into cohesive, maintainable platforms.
3 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Reading
Github Skills (8)
buffer9
golang4
protobuf4
protocol-buffers4
protoc3
compiler1
docker1
grpc1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
SafetyCulture/s12-proto
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Protocol Buffer tools
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 8 commits in 1 month
golangprotocol-buffersbufferprotobufprotobuf3
SafetyCulture/protoc-docker
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Protobuf Compiler Docker Containers
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
containersprotobufgrpcdockercompiler
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