Lawrence Wagerfield
Founder CEO at Bytescale
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLawrence Wagerfield is a founder and CEO with 13 years of hands-on software engineering experience, currently leading Bytescale from London. A Scala specialist by trade, he moved from senior contracting roles across Formula One, finance, law, and data analytics into founding his own company, blending deep distributed-systems expertise with product-led entrepreneurship. His background includes engineering at McLaren Racing and multiple senior contracts at QuantumBlack and Valtech, giving him rare domain breadth across high-performance and data-driven environments. He co-founded an earlier startup (Fifthweek), demonstrating repeat entrepreneurial instincts alongside technical leadership. Known for shipping robust back-end systems and pragmatic architectures, he brings a maker’s mentality to executive strategy. Colleagues would note his ability to translate complex distributed challenges into deployable, scalable products.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Lord Williams1st BSc (Hons) Software Engineering, 1st BSc (Hons) Software Engineering at University of Central Lancashire
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Github Skills (200)
uploader10
npm-package10
bundler10
serverless10
json10
commonjs10
splitting10
nodejs10
absolute-path10
preload10
blurry10
css10
image-uploader10
upload-file10
resumable10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bytescale/upload-javascript-sdk
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Upload JavaScript SDK | Full-Featured Client Library for Upload.io
Contributions:105 commits, 127 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
full-featuredjavascript-clientnode-jsclient-libraryjavascript
bytescale/bytescale-upload-widget
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:472 commits, 568 pushes, 10 branches in 11 months
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