Dan Lambright
Distributed Systems Software Engineer at Inngest
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolDan Lambright is a Distributed Systems Software Engineer with 10+ years building and hardening large-scale storage and database systems for companies like Apple, Meta, AWS, and Red Hat. He has deep expertise in FoundationDB and distributed storage internals—leading scalable redesigns of commit and recovery paths, authoring production changes across transaction processing and recovery, and building Kubernetes-based infra and performance tooling. Dan blends hands-on systems work (from inode-level features and LSM innovations to two-phase commit cross-shard transactions) with operational reliability and developer tooling, and he now focuses on durable function infrastructure at Inngest. He also teaches CI/CD, security, and systems administration at the university level, keeping curricula aligned with modern tooling and experimenting with AI for log analysis. Notable but less obvious: his career threads recurrently tie low-level storage optimizations to cloud-native orchestration, giving him a rare ability to translate hardware-aware designs into scalable cloud services.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (71)
rdma10
fuse10
blob-storage10
bigtable10
backblaze10
gossip10
jenkins-plugin10
foundationdb10
glusterfs10
transactional10
openebs10
acid10
persistent-storage10
high-performance10
tarball10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dlambrig/umlS24
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
umlS24 devops
Contributions:42 PRs, 47 pushes, 43 branches in 1 year
dlambrig/multibranch
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
multibranch demo
Contributions:69 PRs, 94 pushes, 35 branches in 12 days
multibranch
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