Ramon Lawrence
Department Head For Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, And Statistics
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolRamon Lawrence is a database-focused computer scientist and academic leader with 12+ years of experience bridging research, teaching, and industry practice. As Department Head and long-serving professor at UBC, he combines award-winning pedagogy with a track record of translating research into production tools—most notably UnityJDBC for data virtualization—and consulting on Industrial Big Data projects with Fortune 500 firms like GE. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, secured roughly $2M in research funding, and supervised more than 15 graduate students, demonstrating sustained impact in database integration, virtualization, and performance. Ramon’s work spans embedded sensor databases to cloud-scale Hadoop and NoSQL systems, and he has repeatedly applied academic expertise to real-world problems such as municipal water-savings via sensor networks. His background as a founder and VP of Engineering shows he moves comfortably between hands-on development, productization, and strategic academic leadership.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, 4.5 out of 4.5, Ph.D., Computer Science, 4.5 out of 4.5 at University of Manitoba
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Github Skills (24)
mysql10
databases10
partitioning10
sql10
sql-database10
database10
transactional9
datastore9
embedded9
key-value8
mongodb6
jdbc6
java6
multiple-databases6
ecosystem3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rlawrenc/cosc_404
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
COSC 404 - Database System Implementation
Contributions:2 releases, 100 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 2 months
rlawrenc/cosc_516
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 65 commits, 62 pushes in 6 months
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