Lawrence Weikum
Senior Software Engineer at Slack
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLawrence Weikum is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building scalable data and streaming systems and a passion for data democratization. At Slack he leads PII discovery and redaction efforts across core warehouse datasets and drove a project that safely removed 20 PB of data, cutting storage costs by 11%. He also runs onboarding talks to help new engineers quickly adopt data ingestion and analytics best practices. As founder of Craft Navigator he designed and operated a production SaaS platform using Firebase, Firestore, React, and TypeScript, demonstrating full-stack product and operational ownership. Lawrence’s background includes graduate work in computer science and an unfinished Ph.D., reflecting deep research curiosity paired with pragmatic engineering. He blends startup founder instincts with enterprise-scale data stewardship, excelling at turning privacy and cost challenges into reliable, auditable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelors, Bachelors at Colorado State University
American Sign Language, English
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Github Skills (45)
kafka10
lag10
kafka-cluster10
apache9
kafka-connect9
scala9
big-data9
ksqldb9
apache-kafka9
tracks8
java8
golang8
kafka-consumer8
redis7
minecraft7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lawrencemq/printipy
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
The Printify API in Python
Contributions:9 releases, 5 reviews, 33 PRs in 1 year 11 months
lawrencemq/Burrow
Oct 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 10 branches, 1 tag in 6 years 1 month
kafka-consumercheckingconsumer-lagconsumer-lag-checkingkafka
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