ABOUT ME

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together

I maintain The Smarter Project, an open-source declarative framework designed for enterprise artificial intelligence, and also Full Stack with Lawrence, a collection of Python tutorials for data science and web. I’m an enthusiastic lifelong learner, a data scientist, a cloud architect, a full stack developer and a photography enthusiast.

I teach cloud computing, AI & Machine Learning and the UBCx Data Science Summer Program at University of British Columbia and I publish articles and videos on a variety of technology topics. In 2023 I authored and am the principal maintainer of openedx-actions, an open source set of CI-CD tools for managing Open edX platforms at scale on Kubernetes.

I advocate for open source, try to keep things DRY and well-documented and when possible I adhere to the principals of 12-factor development. I earned a B.S. from University of North Texas with majors in Computer Science and Mathematics and minors in Physics and English. But that was a long time ago. See my Education page for more recent coursework.