E. Lau

Edmond Lau

Fractional CTO & CISO, principal architect and landscape photographer in Toronto. This is how the pieces connect.

Diagram: Edmond Lau connects to professional work (Fractional CTO, Principal Architect and Fractional CISO, all through Mossa Labs and its products Valori, Confreres and Flux) and personal work (photography, open source, talks and LinkedIn). Edmond LauTorontoFractional CTOEngineering + productPrincipal ArchitectSystems + applicationsFractional CISOSecurity + complianceMossa Labsmossa.ioValorialphaConfreresliveFluxopen sourcePhotographyLandscape + travelOpen sourceSince 1999elau.photographyInstagram@edmondlau.photographyGitHubedlauTalk archive2012 to 2015LinkedInin/edmondlau Diagram: Edmond Lau connects to professional work (Fractional CTO, Principal Architect and Fractional CISO, all through Mossa Labs and its products Valori, Confreres and Flux) and personal work (photography, open source, talks and LinkedIn). Edmond LauTorontoFractional CTOEngineering + productPrincipal ArchitectSystems + applicationsFractional CISOSecurity + complianceMossa Labsmossa.ioValorialphaConfreresliveFluxopen sourcePhotographyLandscape + travelOpen sourceSince 1999elau.photographyInstagram@edmondlau.photographyGitHubedlauTalk archive2012 to 2015LinkedInin/edmondlau
TitlePersonal systems overview
Drawn byE. Lau
LocationToronto, Canada
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General notes

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  1. Fractional CTO & CISO through Mossa Labs: senior engineering, product and security leadership for teams that can't wait six months to hire one.

  2. Two decades leading teams from scrappy startups to the Fortune 100, across finance, media, IoT and SaaS.

  3. Hands-on since 1989. As principal architect, I design and build Mossa's own products: Valori, Confreres and Flux.

  4. Security work covers posture reviews, encryption, and SOC 2 and ISO 27001 readiness.

  5. Landscape and travel photographer. All prints on sheet 2 are by the author.

  6. Unless noted otherwise, enquiries about CTO or CISO work go to mossa.io; everything else to sheet 5.

Prints

Cyanotype proofs of my landscape and travel work. Hover or tap a print to develop it in colour.

elau.photographyInstagram
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Elevation

Thirty-seven years, drawn to scale.

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  1. 1989First program

    C, on an IBM XT.

  2. 1997First website

    Published on GeoCities.

  3. 1999Open source

    Started contributing on SourceForge.

  4. 2012Speaking

    Talks on DIY electronics, wearables and machine learning.

  5. 2015Startup exit

    CTO of a startup through its sale.

  6. NowMossa Labs

    Fractional CTO & CISO, after two decades leading teams from startups to the Fortune 100.

Revision 1: CTO of a startup through its sale, 2015.

Parts list

Open-source parts I'm reading and trying, plus the register of my older talks.

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Recently starred

Pulled live from my GitHub stars.

ItemPartLanguageStars
1devvmhq/devvmOne VM for every project. An isolated sandbox with your project’s toolchain, ready for you or a coding agent to start codingGo547
2microsoft/playwrightPlaywright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.TypeScript100k
3langfuse/langfuseOpen source agent evals & observability: Trace, evaluate, and improve LLM applications with one open platform.TypeScript37k
4coollabsio/coolifyAn open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 360+ one-click services on your own servers.PHP66k
5cactus-compute/cactusSub-50mb agentic, voice and vision intelligence for consumer devices.Python15k
6catdad/canvas-confettiperformant confetti animation in the browserJavaScript13k
7eneskirca/nodetermNode-based terminal manager for AI coding agents — tmux-backed terminals and parallel agent sessions as draggable nodes on an infinite pan/zoom canvas. macOS, Linux, and a browser Server Edition.TypeScript2.5k

Drawing register

Talk decks, kept online as they were.

YearTitle
2012Evolution of DIY Electronics
2014Shiny New Tech
2015Google Glass
2015Machine Learning

Contact

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Need a CTO or CISO in your corner? Start at Mossa Labs.

For photography, old talks, open source, or just to say hello, any of these reach me.

CTO / CISO workmossa.ioLinkedInin/edmondlauGitHubedlauPortfolioelau.photographyInstagram@edmondlau.photography
Email[email protected]