Lawrence Stewart
Technical Founder at NootkaAI
Area A (Mill Bay / Malahat), British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLawrence Stewart is a technical founder and engineer with 11 years building scalable data-driven platforms, currently leading NootkaAI where he architects PyTorch models and production pipelines for high-throughput financial news processing. He previously co-founded Classic.com and AutoMudo.com, designing distributed microservices, web crawlers processing 100k+ listings daily, and ML systems that delivered 95%+ extraction accuracy. Comfortable across the stack—from FastAPI and Django backends to NextJS frontends, ElasticSearch, Postgres/TimescaleDB and Kubernetes—he blends hands-on implementation with product-led leadership and hiring/mentorship of engineering teams. Known for operational rigor (99.9% uptime pipelines) and contributions to open dataset efforts like OpenOrca, he brings practical experience turning research models into served, scalable products. Based in Mill Bay/Malahat, BC, he pairs startup experience and YC-school founder grit with a knack for squeezing latency and reliability gains out of complex data systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at The University of WinnipegKelvin
English
Stackoverflow
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424reached
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Github Skills (200)
nlp10
bert10
speech-recognition10
python10
reverse-geocoding10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
transformer10
captcha10
natural-language-processing10
adapter10
mojo10
pytorch10
deep-learning10
cuda10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Nootka-io/wee-benchmarking-tool
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 25 days
getorca/pyPelias
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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