Wai Lau
Software Engineer - Platform
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolWai Lau is a software engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling platform and developer infrastructure, currently enhancing platform reliability at Coinbase from Montreal. Previously at Shopify he worked on search infrastructure and developer tooling, shipping automation for large-scale indexing, parallelized test suites, and multi-region search operations. His background includes internships focused on CI/CD, data preprocessing, and microservice management, giving him a strong operational and automation-first mindset. Known for reducing runtime and operational friction, he blends systems engineering with practical tooling to make large distributed systems more testable and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Pure and Applied Science DEC, Pure and Applied Science, Pure and Applied Science DEC, Pure and Applied Science at Marianopolis CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Concordia University
Github Skills (12)
linux10
opengl10
vte9
gpu9
macos9
terminal-emulator9
rust9
bsd9
windows9
cli7
robotics3
game-engine1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Wai-Lau/netbot
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:64 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
wai-lau/configs
Sep 2018 - Jul 2026
My vim/tmux/zsh configs.
Contributions:2 PRs, 117 pushes, 8 branches in 7 years 10 months
vimtmuxconfigsneovimdotfiles
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