Adam Lane
Head Of Engineering at FrontlineIQ
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Lane is a seasoned engineering leader based in Santa Barbara with 14 years of experience scaling startups from bootstrapped prototypes to production products and acquisitions. Currently Head of Engineering at FrontlineIQ, he has repeatedly been recruited by CEOs and founders to restructure teams, establish engineering best practices, and deliver high-impact product lines such as payroll at Bambee and a rewards platform that reached 300,000+ families. A hands-on full-stack engineer who has owned infrastructure, backend systems, and launch-to-scale operations, he also contributes to open-source tooling—maintaining a Play Framework authentication plugin and tuning it for CDN compatibility. Adam is known for building efficient, happy teams, optimizing processes that cut costs and boost velocity, and for applying a founder’s mindset to technical leadership and product strategy.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Royal High SchoolB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
authentication10
user-authentication10
java10
javas10
playframework10
mysql9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
nodejs6
ssl-certificate6
sbt6
bash6
circleci6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
joscha/play-authenticate
Jun 2012 - Jan 2013
An authentication plugin for Play Framework 2.x (Java)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 comment in 7 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on maintaining and updating the authentication plugin, "play-authenticate", for the Play Framework. Their contributions involved fixing code, particularly related to the application controllers and account management. A significant portion of the work centered on disabling caching for CDN compatibility. Further adjustments were made to account and signup related functionalities, ensuring optimal behavior in a CDN environment.
authenticationjavaplayframeworkplay-frameworklinkedin
Enalmada/nextjs-boilerplate
Sep 2023 - Dec 2024
Next.js + NextGQL+ Drizzle + NextUI (tailwind)
Contributions:3 reviews, 119 PRs, 173 pushes in 1 year 2 months
nextjsnextuitailwind
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