Larry Mitchell
Director Of Software Engineering at Crescendo Technology
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLarry Mitchell is a seasoned Director of Software Engineering with over three decades of hands-on experience designing fault-tolerant, distributed systems for Wall Street, DoD, and large enterprises. He has led teams building real-time Java VMs, RFID middleware, telematics architectures for Ford and Daimler Chrysler, and cloud-native NFV and video microservice platforms at Cisco. Known as an “exotic technology polymath,” he combines deep expertise in NoSQL, fast-data, orchestration (Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenStack) and security/compliance (SOC projects) with product and operations leadership. At Crescendo he now oversees large engineering, QA and product teams, after senior management roles optimizing integrations, SRE and cost/security posture across fintech and payments startups. Beyond enterprise systems he has a rare background blending military technical experience, patented R&D at Sun, and practical startup CTO/VP roles, making him adept at translating cutting-edge research into production-grade platforms.
11 years of coding experience
39 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Concordia UniversityPhysics, Physics at Royal Roads Military College
French
Stackoverflow
2,853reputation
333kreached
33answers
84questions
spring-cloud
top-5%
Github Skills (52)
netflix10
spring10
java10
netflix-eureka10
netflix-zuul10
spring-boot10
authentication9
javafx9
javafx-3d9
ribbon9
feign9
microservices9
spring-cloud9
stellar8
cloud-native8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ljramones/trips
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
A stellar cartography system
Contributions:35 releases, 3 commits, 377 pushes in 4 months
stellarcartographytripsastronomyjava
ljramones/stellarCatalog
Jan 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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