Loren West
Co-Founder, CTO at CDK Global
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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RockstarLoren West is a seasoned software architect and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience, currently Co-Founder & CTO at Microclimates and Sr. Software Engineer based in the Greater Seattle Area. He delivers full-stack solutions from native and hybrid mobile clients to scalable big-data backends, having led technology selections and integrations involving Titan, Cassandra, Kafka, Storm, and Zookeeper. A pragmatic Node.js advocate, Loren has driven Node migrations to reduce complexity and accelerate delivery and contributes to open-source projects like node-config (adding regex/date support and immutability). He blends hands-on engineering with product and compliance leadership—building shared mobile components, REST/graph APIs, and privacy programs—while mentoring teams from concept through production. Outside of work he channels the same craftsmanship into antique restoration, robotics, and lifecasting, a creative detail that informs his practical, long-term technical decisions.
14 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
node-js10
configuration-management10
javascripts10
deploying9
system-properties9
properties-file9
application-properties9
dependency-properties9
spring-properties9
custom-properties9
appsettings9
testing8
node-red6
git6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
node-config/node-config
Nov 2011 - Oct 2022
Node.js Application Configuration
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 216 commits in 11 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Loren primarily focused on maintaining and improving the configuration management aspects of the `node-config` project. Their commits reveal bug fixes in the configuration loading process, including adjustments to how module defaults are handled. They also added functionality for regular expressions and date support within the configuration system. Additional work included fixing the contributor tool and preparing the project for publishing, while also adding immutability.
configurationdeploymentnode-jsjavascriptproperties
microclimates/generator-edge
Apr 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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