Emerson Lackey
Director Of Engineering, Legal Transaction Management at iManage
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEmerson Lackey is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience, currently directing Engineering for Legal Transaction Management at iManage after leading Closing Folders through a successful acquisition. He combines hands-on backend experience (notably contributions to the ComfortableMexicanSofa Rails CMS) with proven skills scaling teams and products from first hire to growth-stage organization. Comfortable across the stack and operational concerns—AWS, Terraform, Django/Flask, Ember.js—he balances technical stewardship with day-to-day execution to deliver secure, performant, and user-loved software. Emerson excels at interfacing with senior leadership to align engineering priorities to business outcomes while cultivating high-performing teams of distributed engineers. He started his career building greenfield web projects and retains a practical, test-driven approach to product development and developer enablement. Based in Old Toronto, his background in political science and philosophy gives him a pragmatic, systems-oriented perspective on complex organizational challenges.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Political Science and Philosophy, BA, Political Science and Philosophy at Concordia University
English, conversational french
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Github Skills (13)
ruby-rails10
cms10
rails10
rails-engines10
ruby10
rspec8
facebook6
emberjs6
php6
omniauth6
integration-testing6
escaping6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
comfy/comfortable-mexican-sofa
Jun 2013 - May 2014
ComfortableMexicanSofa is a powerful Ruby on Rails 5.2+ CMS (Content Management System) Engine
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 1 comment in 10 months
Contributions summary:Emerson primarily contributed to the backend of the Ruby on Rails CMS, "ComfortableMexicanSofa". Their commits focused on adding features to the admin panel, specifically related to file management and page rendering. They also addressed bug fixes and improved the CMS by integrating upstream changes. Further contributions involved updating the schema and fixtures, alongside implementing polymorphic blocks.
cmsruby-on-railsmanagement-systemruby-on-rails-5rails
Emerson/Sanity-Wordpress-Plugin-Framework
May 2011 - May 2013
Contributions:9 commits in 2 years
developingwordpress-pluginswordpresssanewordpress-plugin
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