Ramon Lawrence
Head, Department Of Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
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.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Manitoba
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
database10
sourceforge9
key-value9
databases8
embedded-database7
embedded7
mongodb6
sql6
jdbc6
java6
vehicle-detection6
multiple-databases6
mysql6
iot5
traffic-analysis3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rlawrenc/cosc_516
May 2022 - Dec 2022
COSC 516 Special Topics in Databases (Cloud Databases)
Contributions:1 release, 65 commits, 62 pushes in 6 months
databasedatabases
rlawrenc/cosc_404
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
COSC 404 - Database System Implementation
Contributions:2 releases, 100 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 2 months
database
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