Lawrence McDaniel

Full Stack Developer

Lawrence is the Chief Technology Officer of Querium. His work often involves contributing to the open source project, Open edX, the online learning management system created by MIT and Harvard in 2012, and consulting to clients.

In his free time he is the maintainer of several open source projects including Smarter, a declarative AI resource management & orchestration platform, and Full Stack with Lawrence, a collection of Python tutorials for data science as well as full stack web development. He is an enthusiastic lifelong learner, a data scientist, a cloud architect, a full stack developer and a photography enthusiast.

He also teaches cloud computing and AI at University of British Columbia and he publishes articles and videos on a variety of technology topics. In 2023 he authored and is the principal maintainer of openedx-actions, an open source set of CI-CD tools for managing Open edX platforms at scale on Kubernetes.