Brian Lachniet
Software Engineer, Product Architect at Chameleon Consulting Group LLC
Warrenton, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Lachniet is a seasoned software engineer and product architect with 13 years of experience building and migrating complex systems across cloud, embedded, and enterprise environments. He combines hands-on full-stack development—React/Node.js front ends, Rust drivers, PostgreSQL backends, Kubernetes/Terraform automation—with technical leadership that spans budgeting, staffing, and solution architecture. At Leidos he led cloud migrations and zero-trust identity initiatives, and his open-source contributions to Apache Avro improved .NET Standard/Core support and code-gen for C#, demonstrating attention to interoperability and packaging. Now based in Virginia, he focuses on delivering pragmatic, repeatable reference architectures and automation that reduce manual toil. Colleagues rely on him for practical hybrid-cloud strategies that bridge legacy on-prem apps to cloud-native patterns.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Virginia Tech
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Github Skills (15)
netstandard10
netcore10
avro10
code-generation10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
unit-test9
nuget9
nullable6
nodejs6
attribute6
javascript6
xml-serializer6
scala6
java6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
apache/avro
Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
Apache Avro is a data serialization system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 66 commits, 47 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the C# code generation and the .NET Standard/Core support within the Apache Avro project. Their contributions include adding documentation for named schemas in generated code, mapping Avro namespaces to C# namespaces during code generation, and updating projects to target .NET Standard/Core and .NET Framework 4.0. They also focused on setting up NuGet package generation and improving code quality through documentation updates and the integration of code analysis tools.
avrobigdatadotnetpythonrust
blachniet/avro
Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
Apache Avro
Contributions:6 releases, 188 pushes, 78 branches in 1 year 8 months
avrojavaapache-avroapache
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