Tom Lazar
Senior Developer at tomster.org
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Lazar is a senior Python developer and founder with 20 years' experience building backend systems, RESTful services and DevOps automation from his Berlin base. He combines hands-on expertise in Pyramid, Postgres, Celery, Ansible, Docker and FreeBSD with a strong practice of test-driven and agile development, often coaching teams on best practices. As founder of pyfidelity and long‑time contributor to prominent open-source projects like Pyramid and Cornice, he has improved framework robustness by fixing subtle routing, CORS and Python 3 compatibility issues. His career spans startups and consulting—ranging from CTO and lead developer roles to supporting 20-person networks—giving him rare fluency across application code, infrastructure and systems administration. Notably, he balances product-minded engineering (shipping the Nuimo backend) with pragmatic security thinking, wryly noting efforts to keep devices out of the next botnet.
20 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
n/a, Computer Science, Philosophy, n/a, Computer Science, Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin
German, English
Github Skills (13)
pyramid10
url-routing10
web-framework10
wsgi10
python10
webservice10
testing10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
configuration-management9
cors9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Cornices/cornice
Dec 2012 - Jul 2013
Build Web Services with Pyramid.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the Cornice framework by fixing bugs and enhancing its functionality. They addressed an issue with the Pyramid hook, ensuring correct behavior with non-service routes. The user also merged code changes, updated tests, and modified core service components, including CORS configurations and route factory support. The contributions focused on improving the robustness, testability, and feature set of the Cornice web service framework.
pyramidweb-services
Pylons/pyramid
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
Pyramid - A Python web framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Tom contributed to the Pyramid web framework by implementing Python 3 compatibility for the CherryPy server runner. They also focused on generating external URLs, including handling schemes and app URLs, integrating with external routes. Furthermore, the user added documentation and included the `nose-selecttests` plugin. Their work involved modifying configuration files, tests, and scripts to enhance the framework's functionality and address specific feature requests.
pythonpyramidpython-webframeworkpylons
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