Lucas Chaufournier
Founder at Seattle Social Club, LLC
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Chaufournier is a senior backend engineer and founder with 13 years of experience building high-scale platform systems for commerce and marketplaces. At Square he led backend infrastructure for restaurant merchants and menus, driving $300M+ in incremental GPV and creating Merchant Factory, an internal platform used monthly by hundreds of engineers. He specializes in distributed systems, event-driven high-scale API design, data pipelines, and developer-centric platform tooling, with hands-on experience in Kotlin, Java, and Go on AWS. Lucas pairs deep technical delivery with a product-minded focus on developer experience and reliability, routinely designing systems that are both scalable and ergonomically usable by other engineers. He also brings entrepreneurial and community-building experience—founding Seattle Social Club and a nonprofit tackling loneliness—applying product thinking and systems design to grow communities of thousands. Currently based in Seattle, he’s exploring senior backend, full‑stack, or product engineering roles where he can solve complex fintech and marketplace problems end-to-end.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at The George Washington UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstUniversity College London
Github Skills (16)
jekyll7
rapidapi6
jekyll-theme6
react5
javascript4
mongodb4
js3
fundamentals3
redis3
nodejs3
database2
key-value2
mining2
key-value-store2
data-structures2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thelimeburner/thelimeburner-old.github.io
May 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:156 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 2 years 9 months
thelimeburner/resume
Mar 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
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