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  1. Lawrence McDaniel

    Lawrence McDaniel, BSc, is a freelance full-stack web developer and business analyst, as well as an angel investor, entrepreneur and mentor. He has worked as a freelance technology consultant since 1999, and has advised dozens of startups as well as international banks, hedge funds and real estate investment funds.

    Lawrence has years of experience designing high availability, horizontally scalable cloud-based infrastructure environments, and 20+ years’ experience designing transactional database systems. His areas of expertise include financial modelling and forecasting systems, analytics, machine learning, big data, web, mobile, database technology and Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure. He has significant experience with classic backend stacks and front-end frameworks including Django, React, Angular, and WordPress. He also works extensively with the Open edX® learning management system.

    Lawrence is an ambassador for the AWS Activate Program in Mexico, and advises companies on migration plans to AWS. He also works with early-stage ventures creating back-end environments and implementing continuous integration strategies.

    For 25 years, Lawrence lived in Mexico, Western Europe and Southeast Asia. He holds a Bachelor of Science from University of North Texas with majors in computer science and mathematics, and minors in physics and English.

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