Enrique Lacal
Software Engineer at LF Decentralized Trust
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEnrique Lacal is a software engineer with 8 years’ experience building cloud-native and blockchain systems, currently contributing to Kaleido and serving on the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust Technical Advisory Council. He leads maintenance and community efforts for Hyperledger FireFly and brings proven delivery experience from IBM, where he led multi-timezone teams to ship key components of Watson Orchestrate and built Kubernetes Operators and auth integrations. Comfortable across languages and stacks, he has shipped production services in Go, Java, Python and JavaScript, and previously designed SwiftKueryORM and a Node.js code generator for server-side Swift. His academic work in real-time camera perception and vehicular platooning demonstrates a practical interest in deep learning and embedded simulation beyond typical backend roles. Known for combining hands-on implementation with cross-team architecture and developer enablement, he often bridges open source projects and enterprise delivery. Based in Southampton, he blends research curiosity with a track record of maintaining critical open-source infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Surrey
Spanish, English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (198)
messaging10
python10
command-line-interface10
csrf10
authentication10
swagger10
ipfs10
ruby10
server-side-swift10
fabric10
microservices10
openapi10
corda10
auth10
podman10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
EnriqueL8/odo
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
OpenShift Do - Fast, iterative OpenShift development
Contributions:29 PRs, 95 pushes, 16 branches in 5 months
iterativekubernetesopenshift
hyperledger-firefly/perf-cli
Apr 2024 - Jul 2026
Contributions:11 reviews, 7 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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