Mike De Laurentis
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarMike De Laurentis is a software development manager with 17 years of experience leading distributed engineering teams and building organizations from scratch, specializing in digital publishing, typography, layout, and creative tooling. He combines a hands-on engineering background—evidenced by open-source contributions to projects like singer-python where he refactored core message and metadata handling—with a pragmatic, customer-focused management style that prioritizes listening, removing roadblocks, and uncovering root problems. Based in Seattle, he excels at running large initiatives across geographically dispersed teams and translating creative workflows into robust software products for publishing, eBooks, fonts, and stock art. Known for blending engineering rigor with a designer’s sensibility, he brings both technical depth and a passion for enabling creative professionals to express themselves.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
json10
data-serialization10
refactoring10
lib10
python10
refactor10
serialization10
testing9
unit-test9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
singer-io/singer-python
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Writes the Singer format from Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 32 PRs, 98 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to refactoring and enhancing the `singer-python` library, focusing on its core functionality of writing Singer-formatted data. They renamed and refactored code related to "bookmarks" and "headers" to improve clarity. The user implemented features like writing records and the addition of message representation using classes to improve the structured output. Furthermore, they also focused on refactoring to adopt the project name "singer" and updated the project metadata and structure.
python
itmat/pade
Oct 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:920 commits in 6 months
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