Lawrence Nara

Now

Took my first real break in years after getting burned out from working non-stop. During the sabbatical, decided to finally finish my MBA and started experimenting with AI. 'Your fastest path to yourself is unemployment' - and that turned out to be true. Something magical happens when you step back from the daily grind - you see where tech is heading, where humanity is heading. Got my energy back. Now building things and prepping for my next full-time role.

Last updated: January 2025

Recent Writing

• Product, ideas, problems, solutions

  May 15, 2022

  Google Maps(maps) Ideas(ideas) Google Maps

• Piece 4: Thoughts on Einstein's dreams

  Oct 12, 2013

  Thoughts on Einsteins Dreams - exploring the concept of different types of time: mechanical time and body time.

• Song of the month - The xx (Sunset)

  Apr 25, 2013

  The song Sunset by The XX is a beautiful track. This is my song of the month, exploring themes of love and loss.

• Survival is everything

  Mar 28, 2013

  I enjoyed the quote from Richard Branson which I uplifted for my diary:)

• 2 years and 10 Hardest Lessons Learned

  Jan 16, 2013

  A startup is defined by Eric Ries as a human institution designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Here are 2 years and 10 hardest lessons learned.

Work

• Infosys - Led teams that modernize legacy systems for Fortune 100 companies (2019-2024)
• Amiti Consulting - Built SaaS feedback tool for investment firm with 500+ employees (2018)
• UMHCS - Developed HIPAA-compliant health records system (2017-2018)
• Wasamundi - Co-founded first business directory in Cameroon, pioneered student hostel directory and SMS marketing SaaS, grew to 5K+ businesses (2011-2017)
• Usepulse - Built university communication platform connecting students via SMS/web (2011-2013)
• Tools I use - AWS, React, Angular, Node.js, Python, whatever works for the problem

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