Lawrence Lawson
Software Engineer II at Twitch
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLawrence Lawson is a Software Engineer II based in Los Angeles with 10 years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade backend systems in Go, Python, and TypeScript. At Twitch he helped optimize services handling >1M RPS, led infrastructure migrations that cut latency and saved over $100k/month, and mentors engineers through the company’s mentorship program. His background includes designing regulated asset services and developer-facing APIs at the Stellar Development Foundation and contributing practical enhancements to Stellar’s Go monorepo (notably extending logging middleware to surface extra headers). He’s built ETL pipelines that move terabytes of data to multiple dependents and has a track record of improving ML infrastructure and test suites across startups and research labs. Known for pragmatic engineering and careful API design, he blends systems thinking with hands-on implementation across distributed, financial, and ML systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at El Camino CollegeUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (8)
logging10
middleware10
go10
testing10
horizon4
stellar4
cryptocurrency4
blockchain4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
stellar/go
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Stellar's public monorepo of go code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:181 reviews, 145 commits, 37 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Lawrence primarily contributed to the `support/http/logging_middleware.go` file, enhancing the logging capabilities of the Go code. They added new functionalities like `LoggingMiddlewareWithOptions` which allows services to pass extra headers. The contributions involved modifying the logging middleware to include extra headers in request logs and updating the test file to include tests for the new functionality. They also refactored the code by switching the variadic function arg to an Options pointer to make it more extendable.
horizongolangmonorepoblockchainstellar
Zagan202/go
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Stellar's public monorepo of go code
Contributions:3 PRs, 188 pushes, 23 branches in 3 months
golangstellarmonorepoblockchain
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