Laurence Welch
Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudflare
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolLaurence Welch is a Senior Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience building data-driven systems and leading platform and permissions teams at scale. Currently at Cloudflare after progressive engineering and management roles at Spotify and Jet.com, he specializes in production data platforms, load balancing, and authorization services. He combines hands-on engineering chops from early data ingestion and Spark/Pig ETL work with a proven ability to grow and steer cross-functional teams through complex infrastructure projects. Known for enjoying the craft of software, he pairs a pragmatic, developer-first management style with deep domain experience in distributed systems and analytics. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a mix of startup CTO experience and enterprise engineering leadership that helps bridge product needs and reliable operational delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.) Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Associate of Arts (A.A.) Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Bard CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Ithaca College
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (54)
stream-processing10
spark9
incremental-processing9
data-integration9
hadoop8
big-data8
java8
apache-flink8
sql7
database6
hive6
smf6
sbt6
scala6
ivy6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Lwelch45/personal
Oct 2014 - Mar 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 10 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 5 months
FilmUp/website
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 release, 14 PRs, 9 pushes in 14 days
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