Drake Lambert
Director Of Architecture at Netchex
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolDrake Lambert is a Director of Architecture with nine years of experience building and leading teams that deliver pragmatic B2B SaaS web, data, and AI solutions from New Orleans. He blends hands-on ASP.NET Core backend expertise with strategic architecture work—shaping monolith-to-microservice roadmaps and driving efficient technology use across organizations. As an open-source contributor, he has improved robustness in well-regarded .NET tooling (notably Refit) by hardening API error handling and serialization. A former founder and cloud engineer, he pairs entrepreneurial problem-solving with operational discipline for production systems. Outside work he’s a committed family man and rock climber, bringing steady, practical leadership grounded in real-world problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science: Cloud Computing and Networking, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science: Cloud Computing and Networking at Louisiana State UniversityHigh School Computer Systems Networking, High School Computer Systems Networking at Hahnville Highschool
English, c#
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Github Skills (9)
net10
asp-net10
json10
http10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
xamarin9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
reactiveui/refit
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
The automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Core, Xamarin and .NET. Heavily inspired by Square's Retrofit library, Refit turns your REST API into a live interface.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Drake primarily contributed to the Refit library by addressing issues related to exception handling and content serialization within the API. Their commits focused on ensuring the correct content is retained when `ValidationApiException` occurs and the correct serialization of API responses when the content type is `application/problem+json`. These changes included modifications to the `ApiException` and `ResponseTests` files, as well as updates to project files. This indicates a focus on enhancing the robustness and reliability of the library's error handling mechanisms.
retrofitc-sharpturnstype-safenet-core
DrakeLambert/GlobalGameJam2019
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Remy & Drake's Global Game Jam 2019 Submission
Contributions:87 commits, 2 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 day
gamedrakejamgame-jamglobal-game-jam
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