Thierry Lam
Software Developer at theScore
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolThierry Lam is a seasoned software developer with 15 years of experience building full-stack web applications and infrastructure, currently contributing at theScore. A Python and Django specialist who leans toward elegant, pragmatic solutions, he pairs backend expertise (Flask, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/MySQL) with front-end skills and cross-platform build experience. Thierry has a strong background in software configuration management and virtualization—having administered Perforce setups and managed 45+ VMs across ESX farms—which helps him tame complex deployment and legacy-code challenges. He has delivered production systems for companies across ticketing, travel, and media, and is known for enjoying and deciphering esoteric code to solve difficult problems. Based in Toronto, he brings a math degree from the University of Waterloo and a knack for finding Pythonic answers to everyday engineering puzzles.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics, Bachelor of Mathematics at University of Waterloo
Stackoverflow
45,834reputation
4.7mreached
133answers
142questions
django-admin
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django
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django-forms
top-1%
python
top-5%
database
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django-templates
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Github Skills (41)
django10
django-forms10
python9
django-templates9
database9
django-views9
django-admin9
debugging7
postgresql-database7
datadog6
administration6
sorting6
business-logic6
django-models6
cookie6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tlam/spendalot
Jan 2015 - Mar 2020
Personal expense web app (Python/Django)
Contributions:2 PRs, 40 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
pythondjango-frameworkpython-appdjangoexpense
fanxchange/fanx-service-clients
Jan 2020 - Mar 2023
Base service clients for services like ElasticSearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, MySQL, Postgres
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 2 months
redismysqlpostgreselasticsearchpostgresql
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