Lawrence Oks
Principal Product Manager, AI & Innovation
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLawrence Oks is a Principal Product Manager for AI & Innovation with eight years of experience turning moonshot ideas into production-ready solutions in the energy sector. Based in Florida, he leads Generative AI strategy and cross-functional prototyping at NextEra Energy, pairing product rigor with hands-on engineering from his earlier senior innovation engineer role. He has filed multiple patents at the intersection of XR, simulation, drone orchestration, EV, and renewable operations, and built a 3D synthetic data pipeline that trained drone image-recognition models. A former full-stack web developer and active back-end contributor to open-source projects like canvasapi, he brings practical API and automation chops to large enterprise problems. He blends an MS in Computer Science and an MBA in Entrepreneurship to bridge technical depth with venture-facing evaluation of startups and hyperscaler partnerships. Quietly, he leverages experience as a soccer referee to make calm, data-driven decisions under pressure and communicate complex innovation stories across all levels of an organization.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Master of Business Administration - MBA Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at University of Massachusetts AmherstHigh School Diploma Computer Science, High School Diploma Computer Science at Suncoast Community High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (11)
unit-testing10
canvas2d10
api10
canvasjs10
wrapper10
python10
apidoc10
unit-test10
canvas10
testing10
documentation9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ucfopen/canvasapi
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Python API wrapper for Instructure's Canvas LMS. Easily manage courses, users, gradebooks, and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Lawrence primarily contributed to the `canvasapi` project by implementing and modifying API endpoints for the Canvas LMS. Their work included adding functionality to retrieve and manage communication messages and extend assignment features. They also addressed formatting issues and documentation, further enhancing the API's usability and maintainability.
apipythonapi-wrappercanvasinstructure
ljoks/Fall2020-Group44
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
sicko mode or mo bamba
Contributions:4 PRs, 108 pushes, 39 branches in 5 months
emacs
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