Dale Lane
STSM, Chief Architect, IBM Event Automation
Greater Southampton Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDale Lane is a seasoned IBM architect with 12+ years of experience designing and leading cloud-native, event-driven platforms—currently serving as STSM and Chief Architect for IBM Event Automation. He has a deep track record building Kubernetes operators and Apache Kafka integrations (notably IBM Event Streams and the Events Operator) to enable enterprise-grade streaming and event governance on OpenShift. Dale blends hands-on development and technical leadership, having guided client-facing innovation teams that turn concepts into MVPs using design thinking and DevOps practices. His career traces back to early work commercializing IBM Watson and delivering middleware at scale, giving him rare expertise across AI, messaging, and platform engineering. Based in the Greater Southampton area, he’s known for translating complex distributed systems into pragmatic, production-ready solutions that customers can operate themselves.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (hons), Computer Science, 1st Class Honours Degree, BSc (hons), Computer Science, 1st Class Honours Degree at University of Bath
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Github Skills (200)
data-stream10
ibm-mq10
parser10
appinventor10
messaging10
python10
classifier10
sink10
specification10
data-streams10
javascript10
stomp10
reactive10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dalelane/node-red-contrib-plugin-asyncapi
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 20 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
IBM/event-automation-demo
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Ansible playbook for deploying an instance of IBM Event Automation, populated with events for use in demos.
Contributions:9 reviews, 23 PRs, 73 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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