Michael Lavers
Co-Founder & CTO at PayPossible
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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RockstarMichael Lavers is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling web and serverless systems, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO at PayPossible where he helped grow loan originations to $2.7B. He’s a true polyglot—deep in Python, Go, JavaScript, PHP and Ruby—and comfortable across the entire stack from frontend UX to multi-region data ingestion pipelines and 50TB Elasticsearch clusters. Michael has repeatedly led product and infrastructure rewrites (New Relic Serverless, New Relic Infra revamp, IOpipe) that delivered measurable adoption and performance improvements through novel indexing, observability, and runtime integrations. He combines startup pragmatism with enterprise rigor: building everything from device-scale telemetry systems at Basis to automated continuous-delivery and containerized microservices at Envelope and Swimlane. An open source enthusiast and mentor, he’s as likely to contribute a tooling repo as he is to architect a production-grade distributed system. Based in Reno, Nevada, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to turn complex distributed problems into reliable, scalable products.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
serverless10
api10
newrelic10
python10
dwolla10
opentelemetry10
rest-api10
django10
serverless-plugin10
web-vitals10
prototyping10
asciidoc10
graphviz10
publish10
sanic10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kolanos/namesilo
Aug 2014 - Apr 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 8 months
api-clientapiclient-wrappernamesiloapi-wrapper
kolanos/iopipe-python
Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
Python agent for AWS Lambda tracing & analytics
Contributions:282 pushes, 211 branches in 2 years 2 months
analyticspythonagentserverlessaws-lambda
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