Loren West
Co-Founder, CTO at CDK Global
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
🤩
RockstarLoren West is a seasoned software architect and entrepreneur with 15+ years building scalable consumer and enterprise systems, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of Microclimates while also contributing as a Senior Software Engineer at CDK Global. He blends hands-on engineering and technical leadership across the full stack—from embedded mobile clients (iOS/Android) and hybrid HTML approaches to big-data backends using Cassandra, Kafka, Storm, Titan, and Node.js. Loren has a track record of reducing complexity and speeding delivery through pragmatic technology choices (notably migrating services to Node.js) and designing RESTful graph-backed APIs. An active open source maintainer, he has contributed backend improvements to the widely used node-config project, adding immutability, regex and date support to configuration loading. Outside of code he pursues practical craftsmanship—antique restoration, robotics and life-casting—bringing an unusual blend of aesthetic sensitivity and systems-level thinking to product design.
15 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
21reputation
929reached
2answers
0questions
Github Skills (16)
configuration-management10
javascript10
nodejs10
dependency-properties9
spring-properties9
custom-properties9
deploying9
system-properties9
appsettings9
properties-file9
application-properties9
testing8
git6
global-variables6
node-red6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
node-config/node-config
Nov 2011 - Oct 2022
Node.js Application Configuration
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 216 commits in 11 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Loren primarily focused on maintaining and improving the configuration management aspects of the `node-config` project. Their commits reveal bug fixes in the configuration loading process, including adjustments to how module defaults are handled. They also added functionality for regular expressions and date support within the configuration system. Additional work included fixing the contributor tool and preparing the project for publishing, while also adding immutability.
configurationdeploymentnode-jsjavascriptproperties
microclimates/generator-edge
Apr 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.