Thomas Lorang
Managing Director at StrategyDigitized
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Lorang is a Managing Director based in Munich with 15 years of commercial and pricing leadership across PE-backed and corporate environments, advising boards and portfolio company leadership on value creation. He has led margin management and strategic pricing programs at major firms including Novartis, Henkel and Baxter, and built global pricing frameworks for businesses with multibillion-dollar sales. Equally comfortable with hands-on analytics and executive strategy, he combines an MLA in Finance from Harvard with technical roots in computer science and IT systems engineering. Thomas also contributes to open-source back-end tooling—having refactored and extended the popular marginalia library for ActiveRecord SQL comments—highlighting a rare blend of commercial acumen and engineering fluency.
15 years of coding experience
Tsinghua UniversityUniversity of St.GallenTechnical University of MunichBusiness Economics Computer Science, Business Economics Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraBusiness Administration Computer Science, Business Administration Computer Science at DHBW HeidenheimMaster of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies Finance, Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies Finance at Harvard UniversityIT Systems Engineer, IT Systems Engineer at Vocational School
Github Skills (10)
activerecord10
sql10
ruby10
ruby-rails9
rails9
databases8
sql-database8
data-integration8
software-design8
testing7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
basecamp/marginalia
Mar 2012 - Dec 2013
Attach comments to ActiveRecord's SQL queries
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the `marginalia` project, which focuses on attaching comments to ActiveRecord's SQL queries. Their work involved refactoring and improving the core functionality of the library. They addressed code duplication, improved the application name configuration, and added support for different database adapters, including SQLite and PostgreSQL. Furthermore, they implemented features for configuring the query comment and made adjustments to prevent double instrumentation.
attachsql-queriesrailssqlruby
noahhl/go-batsd
Jan 2013 - Jan 2018
Contributions:106 commits, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
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