Gene Lang
Software Engineer at Redpanda Data
Hendersonville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGene Lang is a software engineer and DevOps specialist with three years of hands-on experience building developer-friendly tooling and reliable infrastructure, currently contributing to Redpanda Data on high-performance streaming platform tooling. He focuses on using code to automate operational pain points, improve developer experience, and raise test quality, with recent open-source contributions that added mount/unmount support and JSON/YAML formatting to the Redpanda CLI. Gene’s background spans staff and senior DevOps roles at Convictional, Shipt, and UAB, plus database administration experience, giving him a practical full-stack operations perspective. Based in Hendersonville, TN, he’s committed to improving team codebases and documenting learnings to pay forward the help he received.
3 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at Emory University
Github Skills (11)
redpanda10
command-line-interface10
kafka10
go10
cli10
command-line10
yaml9
json9
container8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/redpanda
Feb 2023 - Dec 2024
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:289 reviews, 11 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Gene primarily contributed to the Redpanda CLI and toolbox, focusing on features related to cluster storage management. Their work includes adding support for mount and unmount operations, and also creating a feature to list mountable topics. Additionally, the user implemented the addition of format options to the topic list and describe commands, supporting JSON and YAML formats. These contributions enhanced the functionality and usability of the Redpanda CLI.
realtimezookeeperdata-platformkafka-api10x
redpanda-data/redpanda-ansible-collection
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:23 releases, 70 reviews, 131 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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