Laurens Lavaert
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at introw
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolLaurens Lavaert is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 11 years of experience building AI-driven solutions and scalable cloud-native systems from Ghent, Belgium. As CTO of Introw and former Head of Software Engineering at Faktion, he has led cross-functional teams to deliver high-throughput data and document-processing platforms, real-time streaming architectures using Kafka, and production-grade ML integrations. He pairs hands-on engineering—evidenced by open-source contributions to Neo4j-GraphQL tooling—with strategic architecture work spanning Kafka Streams, Terraform, AWS ECS, and CI/CD at enterprise scale. Laurens is skilled at turning messy technical debt into maintainable platforms, coaching teams on ownership and delivery, and has a track record of shipping performance-focused systems such as OCR ingestion pipelines and large interactive graph UIs.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Development, Bachelor's degree, Software Development at Hogeschool Gent
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (10)
neo4j10
graphql10
javascript10
cypher10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
nodejs9
webpack6
react6
ecmascript6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
neo4j-graphql/neo4j-graphql-js
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
NOTE: This project is no longer actively maintained. Please consider using the official Neo4j GraphQL Library (linked in README).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 15 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Laurens primarily focused on enhancing the `neo4j-graphql-js` project, which involves Cypher and GraphQL integration with Neo4j. Their contributions primarily revolve around refactoring and improving how the library handles interface types, as evidenced by the code changes related to `src/translate.js` and `src/selections.js`. They addressed several bugs, including removing excess code and ensuring correct parameter passing within the Cypher generation process.
actively-maintainedgraphql-libraryneo4jneo4j-graphqlgraphql
DylanVerstraete/Linux-Labos
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 26 PRs in 2 days
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