Esme Lamb
Staff Software Engineer at Slack
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolEsme Lamb is a Staff Software Engineer based in Melbourne with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD, and container platforms at Slack. Her daily toolkit centers on Linux, Go, Kubernetes, VCS and automation—she describes herself as a "wrangler of the shells" and a meticulous Git surgeon. Progressing from Software Engineer to Staff within Slack, she blends hands-on systems work with a knack for simplifying developer workflows and reliability. Prior experience in DevOps at MYOB and technical production studies bring a practical, multidisciplinary perspective to tooling and operations. Known for a pragmatic ethos—"make computer work good"—she excels at turning complex infra problems into auditable, repeatable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of MelbourneBachelor's degree (deferred) Computer Science, Bachelor's degree (deferred) Computer Science at RMIT University
Github Skills (52)
console-application10
text-editor9
code-editor9
vim8
aws-sdk8
opengl7
golang7
aws7
sdk7
kakoune7
clustering7
python7
baduk6
editor6
database5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dedelala/dots
Aug 2017 - Mar 2025
all config all the time
Contributions:2 PRs, 102 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 8 months
vimtmuxconfigneovimdotfiles
dedelala/docker
Mar 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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