E Lane
Senior Software Engineer at ThousandEyes (part of Cisco)
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolE Lane is a senior software engineer based in Austin with a decade-plus track record modernizing build and deployment workflows and shipping reliable web platforms. He’s driven large-scale migrations—from Jenkins to GitHub Actions and monoliths to containerized Kubernetes deployments—boosting developer velocity and reducing regressions through automation, observability, and stricter test enforcement. Comfortable across front- and back-end stacks (HTML/CSS/JS, PHP, Perl, C/C++, Node) and infrastructure tooling, he’s also administered Backstage to create a unified developer portal and contributed backend improvements to the widely used Backstage project, including a Jenkins plugin and Argo CD enhancements. Colleagues rely on him to simplify messy systems: he repeatedly removes manual workflows whole-cloth through pragmatic automation and clean, maintainable refactors.
4 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Texas at Austin
Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
back-end-development10
typescript10
argocd10
backstage10
web-developer10
typescript-types10
jenkins10
portal10
logging10
jenkins-ci10
typescripts10
es6-promise9
javascript9
nodejs9
configurations9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RoadieHQ/roadie-backstage-plugins
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
All Backstage plugins created by Roadie.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 19 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:E primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the Argo CD plugin. They added essential logging to aid in debugging, improved code structure by separating types into a dedicated file, and removed unused code. The user also addressed code quality by fixing linting issues, correcting grammar, and simplifying existing code. These changes indicate a focus on improving the robustness, maintainability, and debugging capabilities of the backend services.
backstagebackstage-pluginpluginroadie
backstage/backstage
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 14 days
Contributions summary:E primarily focused on enhancing the Jenkins backend plugin within the Backstage framework. They implemented support for multiple branches within the Jenkins integration, enabling more flexible project retrieval. Furthermore, they refactored the code to accept arrays of branches and added a standards-compliant Promise.any polyfill for Node v14 to ensure compatibility and improve error handling. These modifications reflect a contribution geared towards improving the Jenkins integration within the broader developer portal.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
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