Danielle Lancashire
Principal Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarDanielle Lancashire is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building invisible infrastructure that helps teams ship software faster and more reliably. She has led platform and distributed systems work at Fermyon/Akamai and VMware—architecting a global Wasm Functions platform, modernizing vSphere control planes, and stabilizing the Kubelet and its test suite. Previously she improved CI/build execution at CircleCI, accelerated Nomad at HashiCorp, and contributed core tooling to fastlane and CocoaPods, reflecting deep cross‑stack expertise in build systems, scheduler design, and test infrastructure. A committed open‑source maintainer and community steward, she serves on the Swift Platform Steering Committee and the Kubernetes Code of Conduct Committee and has driven reliability fixes in high‑visibility projects like Kubernetes and etcd. Based in Berlin, she combines systems design, hands‑on debugging, and mentorship to reduce operational risk and make complex infrastructure feel effortless. An uncommon strength is her knack for improving test frameworks and CI workflows to turn flaky systems into predictable delivery pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (55)
dependency-manager10
objective-c10
kubernetes10
spin10
ios10
testing10
internationalization10
distributed-systems10
fastlane10
url-parsing10
etcd10
refactor10
cicd10
ruby10
xcode10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
CocoaPods/Xcodeproj
Sep 2016 - Jan 2019
Create and modify Xcode projects from Ruby.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 2 reviews, 59 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Danielle primarily contributed to the xcodeproj gem, specifically focusing on improving the handling of Xcode project files. Their work included bug fixes related to directory changes when writing plist files. The user also addressed issues regarding FFI integration and added command-line argument functionality within the scheme files. Furthermore, they released multiple versions of the gem, indicating a maintenance role.
machplistmodifyrubyxcodeproj
CocoaPods/CocoaPods
Sep 2014 - Mar 2018
The Cocoa Dependency Manager.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 2 reviews, 238 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Danielle primarily contributed to the CocoaPods project by modifying and refactoring core command structures and validation processes. They implemented and refined methods related to ensuring the correct setup of master repositories, particularly within the search functionality. Furthermore, they updated the codebase to incorporate validation against CocoaPods versions and introduced a Swift-versioning mechanism for projects. These changes collectively improved the stability, compatibility, and overall maintainability of the dependency management process.
cocoapodsobjective-cpackage-managermacdependency-manager
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