Romain Lanz
Chief Technology Officer Co-Founder at Streali
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRomain Lanz is a Swiss technology leader and serial co-founder with 11 years of hands-on experience building web platforms, developer tools, and infrastructure. As CTO and co-founder of multiple ventures (Streali, Intraweb) and a long-time contributor to the AdonisJS ecosystem, he blends product-facing leadership with deep back-end expertise in TypeScript, ORMs and server tooling. He has been maintaining and refactoring core framework components — from routing and view handling to ORM features like truncate/last — demonstrating a knack for improving developer ergonomics and system architecture. His work at the FIVB and earlier system-administration roles show he’s comfortable operating both as a full-stack engineer and a systems maintainer in production environments. Active in the open-source community, his contributions to a widely used TypeScript-first web framework reveal a commitment to quality, documentation and dependency hygiene. Based in Lausanne, he pairs practical engineering rigor with entrepreneurial drive and occasional attention to small but impactful details like licensing and code style.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
CFC Informaticien, Computer Science, CFC Informaticien, Computer Science at ETML, Ecole technique Ecole des métiers, LausanneTechnicien Informatique en développement, Computer Software Engineering, Technicien Informatique en développement, Computer Software Engineering at Centre professionnel du Nord vaudois
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Github Skills (42)
mvc-framework10
application-framework10
javascript10
develop10
app-framework10
typescript10
opencore10
lua10
sql10
typescript-types10
coreos10
nodejs10
typescripts10
knexjs10
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
adonisjs/core
Jan 2016 - Nov 2022
AdonisJS is a TypeScript-first web framework for building web apps and API servers. It comes with support for testing, modern tooling, an ecosystem of official packages, and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 9 reviews, 48 commits in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Romain primarily focused on refactoring and improving the AdonisJS framework's core components. Their work involved correcting licensing information across multiple files and updating dependencies, specifically upgrading lodash. They also made changes to various aspects of the framework including routing, configuration, and view handling, demonstrating a broad understanding of the system's architecture. Furthermore, the user addressed documentation and code style issues, as well as adding a new method to handle environment variables.
confidencenodejs-frameworkjs-frameworknode-jsjavascript
adonisjs/lucid
Oct 2017 - Oct 2022
AdonisJS SQL ORM. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, Redshift, SQLite and many more
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 17 reviews, 32 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Romain primarily contributed to the AdonisJS Lucid ORM, addressing bugs and implementing new features. They fixed issues related to seeding the database, schema creation, and command typos. Furthermore, the user introduced new functionality, such as the `truncate` and `last` methods for models and query builders, enhancing data management capabilities. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the ORM's core functionalities and usability.
mysqlredshiftsqlfirst-party-packagesqlite3
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