Summary
Lawrence P is a Co-Founder and engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, data-intensive distributed systems from startups to Stripe and Facebook. He led mission-critical re-architectures at Stripe that removed major scalability bottlenecks and doubled throughput for billing and invoicing pipelines, and has hands-on experience building compliance, real-time attribution, and time-series ingestion systems. As a founding engineer at an early-stage startup he built a product vertical that landed Fortune 100 customers, and now is launching a stealth venture in San Francisco focused on distributed data. Colleagues know him for pragmatic ownership across product, infra, and customer-facing roles, and for an engineer’s discipline down to his habit of squashing commits. Trained at Waterloo, he brings both low-level performance work and cross-functional leadership to thorny data problems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BCS Computer Science, BCS Computer Science at University of Waterloo