Lauri Pesonen
Lead Software Engineer at Whimsical
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLauri Pesonen is a Lead Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building maintainable, production-ready systems and coaching teams to ship with confidence. He combines domain-driven design, TDD/CQRS practices and pragmatic architecture to deliver fault-tolerant microservices and responsive web apps, with recent work spanning Rust, Kotlin, Java, Kafka and modern React frontends. Lauri favors correctness-first implementations that are measurable and observable in production, and he champions pairing, REPL-driven development and automated test suites to shorten feedback loops. His background ranges from embedded and real-time C/C++ systems to cloud-native services and fintech payments, and he regularly mentors engineers to adopt tools that boost team productivity. Outside work he builds React/JS apps for the sailplane community and has maintained several Clojure libraries, reflecting a long-standing interest in functional programming and event-sourced architectures.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of CambridgeMSc, MSc at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
Finnish, English
Github Skills (103)
cli9
command-line-tool9
error-messages8
babashka8
http-api8
xml8
homebrew8
administration8
binaries8
macos8
aws-lambda8
planet7
azure-functions7
serverless7
rest7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
liwp/again
Jul 2014 - Apr 2019
A retry library for Clojure
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 years 10 months
retryclojureclojurescriptretry-library
liwp/corax
Jun 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:44 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 9 months
ravensugarcljon-topjava
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