Christopher Lane
Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer at Instructure
Keystone Heights, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Lane is a senior cybersecurity and systems engineer with 14 years of professional programming experience and a background spanning full-stack web development, systems programming, and webapp penetration testing. He currently focuses on CI engineering and blue-team infosec at Instructure, bringing practical DevOps and incident-response skills honed through consulting and leading remote teams at his own firm. A longtime open-source contributor and Go enthusiast, he has improved popular tools like the cheat CLI by refactoring builds and adding cross-shell autocompletion to boost usability for sysadmins. Christopher pairs hands-on coding with teaching experience—he’s lectured at the University of Florida and trained professionals in both public and private sectors—so he communicates technical tradeoffs clearly to diverse audiences. Based in Keystone Heights, Florida, he combines pragmatic security engineering with a knack for building developer-friendly tooling that attracts community contributors.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA, Associate of Arts - AA at Santa Fe CollegeBachelor of Arts - BA, East Asian Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, East Asian Studies at University of Florida
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Github Skills (17)
jquery10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cheat/cheat
Jul 2013 - Nov 2022
cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:46 releases, 1 review, 738 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on refactoring the codebase, including changes to the `setup.py` script, and integrating various autocompletion features for different shells, like bash and zsh. The contributions demonstrate an interest in improving the project's build process and user experience by enhancing the command-line functionality. These changes spanned across multiple files and indicate a focus on overall project quality and usability.
linuxinteractive-cheatsheetscheatsheetbashadministrators
chrisallenlane/wit-cms
Apr 2014 - Mar 2020
A flat-file, markdown-based, blog-aware content-management system for Express.
Contributions:61 commits, 2 PRs, 116 pushes in 6 years
management-systemcmsmarkdown-fileblog-engineexpress
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