Lawrence Wong
Senior Software Engineer at Wealthsimple
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLawrence Wong is a senior software engineer with eight years of experience building full‑stack, API-driven systems and guiding architectural decisions at product-focused companies like Wealthsimple and Roadmunk. He combines hands‑on implementation—Node.js, federated GraphQL, multi‑tenant Postgres and micro frontends—with empathetic team leadership, mentoring junior engineers and serving as a solution owner for cross-team architecture. Known for prioritizing team dynamics as much as code quality, he drives design governance and practical DDD experiments to help product managers make better tradeoffs. Early experience across retail, education, and platform teams honed his ability to ship accessible, data‑driven features and build reliable integration points under tight deadlines. Less obvious: he pairs technical stewardship with a habit of surfacing practical governance (API and permission design) so teams can move faster without accruing architectural debt.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at St. Augustine Catholic High SchoolBachelor, Computer Science (Co-op) Business Administration Minor, Bachelor, Computer Science (Co-op) Business Administration Minor at University of Guelph
Github Skills (16)
hypermedia8
css-properties7
polymer6
browser6
web-components6
mixins5
sprint5
sass4
styles4
d2l4
frontend3
javascript3
css3
neumorphism3
slack3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lawong-d2l/inspiration-parallelms-ui
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
UI for the ParalleLMS Application, an Inspiration Sprint production
Contributions:26 pushes, 9 branches in 9 days
sprintproductioninspiration
lawong-d2l/Manage-Users-Exemptions-Prototype
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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