Loren Sands-Ramshaw
: lorendsr
: lorensr
: loren
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Software engineer specializing in:
- Temporal
- Full-stack web and mobile app dev
- GraphQL
- Security
- Web performance, including 60 FPS CSS animations and interactions
- UX design
- DX design
- Tech:
- Temporal, Node, React, React Native, Next.js, tRPC, Apollo, Gatsby, SQL, MongoDB, Cypress, Meteor, Cordova
- Rusty: Rails, Ruby, CoffeeScript, Android, Java, C, Scheme, Haskell, PL/pgSQL, Backbone, Cucumber, Blaze
- Washington, DC
- San Francisco
- NYC
- Created
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Temporal TypeScript SDK 2021-2022
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The GraphQL Guide 2016-2021
The most comprehensive book on GraphQL. Written with John Resig, the creator of jQuery.
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Parlay App 2014-2016
Mobile app for making social challenges and predictions.
Meteor Cordova app with P2P transactions (USD and BTC).
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Payo 2013-2016
Payo – Paleo Mayo: a healthy mayonnaise.
Only virgin-oil mayo, lowest omega-6, free-range organic eggs.
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Ferro 2013
Efficiency & accessibility Chrome extension providing a launcher / command line for the browser.
- Writing
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Building Reliable Applications with Durable Execution 2024
Intro to durable execution in Node.
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Time-Travel Debugging Production Code 2023
Overview of time-travel debugging (what it is, its history, how it’s implemented) and how it relates to debugging your production code.
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Sync GitHub Repos to Notion with Temporal Schedules 2023
An internal tool that syncs your GitHub org’s list of repositories to a Notion database.
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How Durable Execution Works 2023
How durable execution works under the hood.
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When to use gRPC vs GraphQL 2022
Goes deep into the differences between them and recommendeds when to use each.
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So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming 2021
Discusses the pros and cons of self publishing books and courses on programming.
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The GraphQL Spec, Simplified 2021
A 3-part series explaining the GraphQL specification.
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A Deep Dive on Apollo Data Sources 2020
An overview of data fetching in GraphQL and how to write a custom Apollo data source library.
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Announcing The GraphQL Guide 2017
I explain why I decided to write a book about GraphQL, and I and share about myself, the title, and the logo.
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Use all the databases 2017
An introduction to GraphQL and a tutorial on writing a GraphQL Node server that fetches data from five different data sources. Won best article award on Compose's blog.
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Fixing your Meteor app's render performance 2015
An in-depth analysis of the render performance of a couple complex Meteor Blaze apps.
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The NSA: An Inside View 2013
Blog post on my experience at the NSA. Was at the top of Hacker News for a day.
"An interesting and reasonable perspective."
—John Gruber -
Thesis 2010
"Creating Large Disturbances in the Power Grid: Methods of Attack After Cyber Infiltration"
- Open Source
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temporalio/sdk-typescript
TS SDK for Temporal
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temporalio/samples-typescript
Sample applications for the Temporal TypeScript SDK
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GraphQLGuide/guide
Extensive React example application used in Chapter 6 of the Guide
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GraphQLGuide/apollo-datasource-mongodb
Apollo Server data source for MongoDB
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join-monster/join-monster
Converts GraphQL queries into SQL statements
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meteor/meteor
Community maintainer of Meteor, the #1 web app framework on Github
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lorensr/login-links
Meteor package for creating magic autologin links, like Slack
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lorensr/react-payment
React components for credit card and bank account forms, using material-ui (demo)
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lorensr/segmented-control
A good-lookin' segmented control React component (demo)
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lorensr/roles-restricted
Meteor package for temporarily restricting a user's authorization
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parlaywithme/meteor-synapsepay
Meteor package for making ACH transactions through SynapsePay
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jamielob/reloader
Meteor package for better hot code push updates for Cordova apps
- Podcasts
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Modern Web 2024
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Apache Cassandra Corner 2023
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Front End Happy Hour 2021
- Talks
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GraphQL Summit 2024
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PyTexas 2024
System Design on Easy Mode (34 min)
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Cassandra Summit 2023
Code That Can't Fail (18 min)
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All Things Open 2023
System Design on Easy Mode (40 min)
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LibertyJS 2023
How to build distributed systems in JavaScript
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DataStax 2023
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JNation 2022
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Craft Conference 2022
Building Reliable Distributed Systems (1 hr 37 min)
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TS Congress 2022
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DataLayer 2017
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Meteor Camp Conference 2016
"Apollo Tutorial" at Meteor Camp NYC
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Crater Mobile Conference 2016
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Meteor Devshop NY 2015
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Meteor Devshop SF 2015
- Work
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Netflix 2024–2025
Technical Support Engineer
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Temporal 2022–2024
Developer Relations Engineer
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Temporal 2021–2022
Language Runtime Engineer
Maintained the TypeScript SDK.
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Various 2014–2021
Consultant
Built, fixed, added features to, or added testing for web and mobile apps.
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National Security Agency 2010–2012
Global Network Vulnerability Analyst
- Developed apps with Rails, Backbone, and Android
- Computer Network Operations Development Program
- TS/SCI clearance
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Dartmouth College Computer Science 2007–2009
Section Leader
- Assisted professors with teaching nine courses.
- Taught weekly sections of about ten students.
- Held lab and office hours.
- Education
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf 2011–2015
Technical reviewer for these titles:
- The Way of the Web Tester
- Manage Your Project Portfolio
- Seven Mobile Apps in Seven Weeks
- Secure Your Node.js Web Application
- Creating Great Teams
- Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks
- HTML5 and CSS3
- Mac Kung Fu
- Learn to Program in Objective C
- Seven Databases in Seven Weeks
- The Rails View
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National Cryptologic School 2010–2012
Coursework included network security, web application security, computer network operations, malware analysis, assembly language, network programming, C programming, Linux and Windows kernels, and cryptography.
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Dartmouth College 2006–2010
Bachelor's in Computer Science, magna cum laude.
Honors thesis: Creating Large Disturbances in the Power Grid: Methods of Attack After Cyber Infiltration
Led co-ed fraternity and a cappella group.
