Lawrence Wagerfield
Founder at bytescale
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorLawrence 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
Github Skills (200)
uploader10
npm-package10
bundler10
serverless10
cloud-services10
commonjs10
absolute-path10
coffeescript10
css10
crdt10
image-uploader10
upload-file10
compiler10
amazon-linux10
amd10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bytescale/bytescale-upload-widget-angular
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Beautiful File Upload Component | Developed for Angular by Bytescale
Contributions:1 release, 76 commits, 185 pushes in 9 months
angularfile-uploadangular-componentsangular-componentjavascript
ljwagerfield/crdt
Feb 2014 - Jul 2022
CRDT Tutorial for Beginners (a digestible explanation with less math!)
Contributions:84 commits, 29 pushes, 1 comment in 8 years 6 months
crdtcvrdt-objectseventually-consistenteventual-consistencydistributed-systems
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