Chuck Lantz
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Burnsville, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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RockstarChuck Lantz is a Principal Software Engineer at GitHub with 11 years of experience building developer tooling, now focused on the Copilot coding agent after a stint as a PM Architect incubating AI-driven ideas at Microsoft. He blends hands-on engineering with product mindset, having moved from an engineering PM role to a product-capable engineer who ships features across VS Code, Visual Studio, GitHub, and Azure. His background spans devops, containerized dev environments, mobile tooling, CI/CD automation, and platform engineering, with notable open-source contributions to high-impact repos like vscode-dev-containers and VS Code itself. Comfortable working from low-level build scripts to large-scale enterprise system design, he also has practical experience shaping mobile strategies and secure build pipelines. Based in Burnsville, MN, Chuck brings a pragmatic focus on developer experience and reproducible environments that accelerate team productivity.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (64)
javascript10
docker10
container10
ios10
mobile-development10
buildkite10
cordova10
scripting10
net10
bash10
dotnet10
docker-compose10
containerization10
dockers10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode-remote-try-dotnet
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
.NET sample project for trying out Dev Containers
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 45 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chuck primarily focused on updating the project's build and deployment infrastructure. Their contributions included updating the Azure CLI installation scripts, modifying .devcontainer scripts, and making changes to the project's .NET application configurations to align with updated dependencies and .NET versions. The user's work resulted in ensuring the project's compatibility with newer Azure CLI versions and ensuring the project utilized newer .NET versions.
containersgitpoddotnetdevcontainersdev
microsoft/vscode-dev-containers
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
NOTE: Most of the contents of this repository have been migrated to the new devcontainers GitHub org (https://github.com/devcontainers). See https://github.com/devcontainers/template-starter and https://github.com/devcontainers/feature-starter for information on creating your own!
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:185 reviews, 2000 commits, 781 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chuck contributed to the development of containerized environments, focusing on infrastructure, build tools, and system configuration. Their work included creating and configuring Docker containers with tools such as Docker-in-Docker, Kubernetes, and integrating various tools like Ansible and Terraform, as well as building containerized test projects for various technologies. The user demonstrated experience with setting up and managing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines, and also setting up testing environments.
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