Laurent Schaffner
Founder at Linkbreakers
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolLaurent Schaffner is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 11+ years building scalable SaaS platforms and leading backend teams. He combines hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, Laravel and recent Golang/React/TypeScript stacks with a strong architectural focus developed as Principal Engineer at Livestorm. Laurent excels at translating complex system requirements into pragmatic, maintainable architectures—improving throughput tenfold at scale—and prefers choosing the right tool for the problem rather than sticking to a single language. As founder of Linkbreakers he pivoted into API-first, microservices-friendly design and shipping an analytics-driven QR code platform adopted by 700+ companies. His background spans entrepreneurship, product-led growth and technical leadership, and he brings a lifelong learner’s curiosity informed by interests in psychology, linguistics and anthropology. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful technical research, clear systems thinking and the ability to prevent problems before they surface.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Licence Communication and Media Studies, Licence Communication and Media Studies at Bordeaux 3
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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phpunit
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Github Skills (200)
html10
ruby-wrapper10
rails-app10
dokku10
php10
ruby10
js-plugin10
sidekiq10
rails10
migration10
mvc10
heroku10
laravel10
buildpack10
docker10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Loschcode/vue-mixpanel
Nov 2019 - Jun 2021
A simple Vue.js plugin for Mixpanel
Contributions:11 releases, 32 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 7 months
vue-jspluginmixpanelvuejs-plugin
bloodbath-io/bloodbath-ruby
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Ruby wrapper for Bloodbath
Contributions:5 releases, 40 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 3 months
ruby-wrapperjob-schedulerrubybloodbathdispatch-events
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