John Laban Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, CA

OpsLevel is a modern developer portal for software companies: it's a way for development teams to understand and improve the microservices in their distributed architecture.We continuously check all of your microservices against the tools, processes, and best-practices that you've set up, increasing your organization's leverage and operational.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Creative Destruction Lab is a unique Canadian startup accelerator focusing on seed-stage companies solving hard problems backed by science and machine learning / AI. The CDL provides focus, assessment, and guidance to its ventures from a large suite of entrepreneurs, scientists, and investors, and doesn't take any equity or payment in return. I do my best.

San Francisco, CA, US

I was PagerDuty's 1st employee; over the course of 7.5 years and many different roles, I helped grow and scale PagerDuty from 4 to 400 people and from $0M to $100MM in ARR.I started as a senior developer, moved into managing teams, then teams of teams, then all of engineering as an interim VPE. After helping find a permanent VPE I moved into our first.

San Francisco, CA, US

Took over as VP of Engineering (of a department of 50-60 engineers) on an interim basis for 6 months while we searched for a permanent candidate. Some things I lead while I had the opportunity:- Introduced (and reorganized for) agile software development and cross-functional teams- Introduced goal-setting and tracking outcomes through OKRs- Established.

San Francisco, CA, US

PagerDuty's Realtime Engineering group is responsible for PagerDuty's entire incident & notification pipeline. With extreme focus on high-availability and reliability engineering, they make sure the alerts go out on time, every time.I built and grew this team from 1 person to ~20 people, hiring and developing amazing engineers of all experience levels as.

San Francisco, CA, US

As PagerDuty's first employee, I've had to wear many different hats over the years. I've helped establish many of its early practices that still live on today, in one evolved form or another. Similarly, many of my early technical decisions have had profound impact over the years (for better or worse.)Much of my early technical work revolved around crafting.

Started an engineering services company, and grew it to over 50 (super-talented) employees.

Seattle, WA, US

Fighting fraud and identity theft through the creation of novel machine learning processes and highly scalable services.