Laci Videmsky

“Lah-tsi“ not “Lay-cee“

About

I am a technologist mastering the art and science of supporting the sales cycle with business acumen, solid technical chops, and a sincere interest in the success of my customers. I love building things that matter, working with healthy teams, and surprising & delighting the world with the result.

As a customer facing engineer, I possess a natural ease and comfort working with prospects and customers who are technical experts in their respective domains. I succinctly translate highly technical products and capabilities to managers and procurement executives. I enjoy being an ambassador for the company at conferences and workshops. I’ve been told I possess an uncanny patience with the many moods of customers.

Hacker Skills

An evolving and maturing knowledge of programming patterns, devops workflows, & data magery. Strong in Linux, K8s, Git, & geospatial e2e applications.

• • General Programming: Ruby, Golang, Javascript(TS), Python
• • AI: LangChain, Ollama, AutoGen, pgvector, Claude Code
• • Orchestration: Kubernetes, Crossplane(noob), ECS
• • IaC: Terraform, KOps, Helm, Kustomize, Kubeadm, Docker, Chef, Ansible, Pulumi
• • Collaboration: Git, GitHub/GitLab/Gerrit, Jira, Pivotal Tracker
• • Delivery: ArgoCD, Harness, GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• • Providers: AWS, GCP
• • Env: Unix/Linux, Bash/Shell Scripting
• • Auth: LDAP, AD, IAM, Vault
• • Web APIs: RESTful patterns(Swagger), GraphQL, Postman/Newman
• • O11y: Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, Datadog
• • Front-end: JS fundamentals, Typescript, HTML, CSS(SASS, LESS)
• • Client Side Frameworks: Backbone, Angular, React, WASM
• • Backend: Rails/Sinatra, Express/Node, Golang/Gin, Next.JS
• • Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, RethinkDB
• • Data Modeling: OpenRefine, dbt(noob)
• • Data Streaming: Kafka, Materialize(noob), Redpanda
• • Mapping: Leaflet/Mapbox, Turf.JS, Three.JS, GDAL, PostGIS, D3.JS

Education

2010 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

• Graduate School of Design
• Master in Architecture II

2002 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA

• College of Architecture and Environmental Design
• Bachelor of Architecture

1998 Mesa Community College, San Diego, CA

• Transfer Student

Professional

March 2024 – Present Pulumi, Seattle, WA

• Solutions Architect
  • • Grew our portfolio of enterprise customers through earned trust and consistent and high quality technical advisory
  • • Guided enterprise prospects through evaluation stages to realize business value and secure procurement
  • • Demonstrated technical expertise through effective communication and technical acumen
  • • Documented use-cases and personas to shape tactical pre-sales and expansion strategies
  • • Collaborated with engineering and product teams to enhance functionality and refine documentation
  • • Contributed to customer facing policy as code framework and cloud provider SDKs

Apr 2022 – Feb 2024 Do, Central Coast, CA

• Chief Do’er
  • • Worked with Enterprise customers to expand continuous delivery methodologies among business units
  • • Enabled teams to explore new ways of working & embrace a non-radical shift-left methodology for publishing, securing, & shipping software
  • • Implemented practical technical deliverables with minimal hand-waving
  • • Evangelized relevant best practices observed in the field
  • • Focus: GitOps, Kubernetes, Progressive Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Metrics/Logging/Tracing (o11y), & Everything As Code

Jan 2022 – Mar 2022 Career Break, Central Coast, CA

• Sabbatical
  • • Pipedrive Sales Training: Command of the Message, MEDDIC, Objection Handling
  • • CKAD: Kuberntes certification training
  • • Typescript: fundamentals training

Nov 2020 – Dec 2021 Harness, San Francisco, CA

• Solutions Architect
  • • Collaborated with enterprise customers to realize the benefits of scalable Continuous Delivery with hands-on technical sessions, POCs, & tailored trainings
  • • Served as technical expert in discovery & scoping calls
  • • Participated in design and refinement of pre & post-sales onboarding playbooks
  • • Delivered & authored training and lab courseware for paid customer engagements
  • • Guided the adoption of robust logging and metrics solutions to optimize introspection of CI/CD workloads
  • • Debugged K8s, Helm, & Terraform deployments, also lots of bash

Jan 2018 – Nov 2020 GitLab, San Francisco, CA

• Senior Professional Services Engineer
  • • Delivered & authored training and lab courseware for paid customer engagements
  • • Cross-trained team members in product courseware for paid training engagements
  • • Traveled onsite to Fortune 500 companies to deliver professional services and serve as technical expert assisting pre-sales/post-sales efforts
  • • Participated in scoping and refinement of professional services statements of work
  • • Served as technical expert in discovery & scoping calls
  • • Crafted CI/CD sandbox scenarios for various languages and frameworks to aid training efforts
  • • Provisioned infrastructural assets using IAC tooling for enterprise & SMB customers, in both AWS, GCP, & bare metal environments, and in HA and/or DR configurations
  • • Performed large scale migrations from legacy SCMs to Git
  • • Interviewed engineering and management candidates
  • • Guest speaker for company webinars in CI/CD topics

Feb 2016 - Oct 2017 Dropcountr, Redwood City, CA

• Full Stack Engineer
  • • Technical lead iterating and maintaining Ruby/Sinatra/PostgreSQL/Redis/Backbone web app and service layers for homeowners and water utilities.
  • • Built services to ingest water utility data using Golang and Ruby
  • • Developed backend APIs to facilitate messaging, data modeling, account creation & session management
  • • Infrastructure automation with Chef and AWS Opsworks
  • • Front to back feature development ranging from:
    • • user defined geographical filtering
    • • dynamic time-series charts & maps
    • • filterable group messaging
  • • Contributed to mobile app development using React-native & Redux
  • • Interviewed engineering candidates and authored job descriptions for technical hires
  • • Ambassador for company capabilities at conferences and speaking engagements

Oct 2014 - Jan 2016 Weather Analytics, Bethesda, MD

• Product Architect
  • • Worked closely with business solutions group on new product development and operations
  • • Interface regularly with prospects and current customers to gather requirements, suggest solutions, and facilitate on-boarding
  • • Directed and contributed to production ready web API:
  • • Architected swagger compliant RESTful patterns, conducted benchmarks & load tests using WRK, Bench Rest, & New Relic
  • • Directed and contributed to crop production, yield, and price forecasting application:
    • • prototyped end-to-end web-based application using Angular, Node/Express, mongoDB (user accounts and sessions), & postgreSQL/PostGIS
    • • authored PostGIS geospatial queries & requisite front-end functionality with leaflet/mapbox & D3
  • • Coordinated engineering team efforts using SCRUM methodologies
  • • Maintained AWS assets and deployment builds
  • • Interviewed engineering candidates and authored job descriptions for technical hires
  • • Ambassador for company capabilities at conferences and speaking engagements

Jul 2012 – Oct 2014 Resource Renewal Institute, Mill Valley, CA

• Project Director
  • • Developed an online platform to make water resources more understandable. Facilitated sales of organization’s portfolio of multimillion dollar water assets.
  • • Responsibilities: project management using agile methodologies, outreach, coordinating consultants, fund-raising, data research, data reconnaissance, data cleanup scripting, data visualization, and front-end engineering.

Aug 2013 – Dec 2014 (part-time) University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Berkeley, CA

• Lecturer in Architecture
  • • Co-taught a core curriculum course for graduate students of architecture, which emphasized urban planning strategies for climate change and increased water stress.
  • • Responsibilities: crafted course material, curated GIS data, and coordinated guest lecturers.

Languages

• • Spanish: speak, read & write at an intermediate level
• • Hungarian: speak at a beginner level

Activities

• • New California Water Atlas (co-founder): opensource & opendata project https://github.com/NewCaliforniaWaterAtlas
• • Nerds for Nature (co-founder): citizen science & community initiative http://nerdsfornature.org

Publications/Press

• Estuary News: “Atlas Pegs Water Prices“ - New California Water Atlas featured
• AP: “Calif. water atlas seeks to clarify water issues” - New California Water Atlas featured
• Grist: “Code green: Nerds for Nature pairs techies and enviros to hack the planet“ - Nerds for Nature initiative featured
• Wired.com: “Interactive Atlas Highlights Water Use Issues in California” - New California Water Atlas featured
• Boom: “For a New California Water Atlas” - New California Water Atlas featured
• San Diego Union Tribune: “Interactive “water atlas” makes water claim data public” - New California Water Atlas featured

Last updated: July 2025