Larry Kooper
Retired
New York, New York, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLarry Kooper is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building scalable web and data systems across journalism, media analytics, and startups, most recently as a Staff Software Engineer focused on Python and test automation. His background spans full-stack web development at The New York Times and TheLadders, large-scale Spark/Scala data work on AWS and Databricks at 605 Data, and leadership of high-availability web operations at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He pairs technical depth—from JavaScript, Rails, and PHP to big data pipelines—with product and operational instincts honed through roles in product management and consulting. Based in New York, he’s known for reinventing himself professionally and bringing pragmatic engineering practices to improve software quality and reliability.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at New York UniversityMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, General, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, General at MIT Sloan School of ManagementHigh school, High school at Bronx HS of Science
English
Stackoverflow
71reputation
48kreached
5answers
0questions
Github Skills (49)
byebug9
debugging7
ruby7
sinatra7
syntaxerror6
factory-bot6
ruby-on-rails6
nodejs6
shoryuken6
associations6
mwaa6
intern6
django6
concurrent-ruby6
pycharm5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
larrykooper/bookmarks-2
Dec 2021 - May 2024
LIVE VERSION keep your bookmarks
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 5 months
larrykooper/budget
May 2024 - Dec 2025
budgeting program
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.