Geoff Lancaster
Principal Architect, DevOps And Developer Experience - Office Of The Chief Architect at Ping Identity
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolGeoff Lancaster is a Principal Architect specializing in DevOps and Developer Experience with 11 years of hands-on experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across startups and Fortune 100 companies. He led the architecture and SDLC overhaul for Ping Identity’s SaaS offering, driving containerization, observability, and cloud cost optimizations while growing teams from 6 to 20+ engineers. At USAA he architected a CI/CD pipeline that cut time-to-market by 64x and championed open-source release of internal tooling. Earlier startup work at BSX had him as sole software architect building sub-second, asynchronous data processing for wearable sensor data and shipping mobile and web clients. Known for blending technical depth with people leadership, he mentors teams to improve performance, efficiency, and developer experience. Based in Austin and UT Austin–educated, he pairs systems-level thinking with a pragmatic focus on measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinTomball High School
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (158)
authentication10
azure-functions10
terraform10
mobile-web10
serverless10
terraform-module10
verify10
serverless-applications10
aws-apigateway10
lambda10
azure10
serverless-architectures10
rbac10
database-access10
eloquent10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
geofflancaster/ping-cloud-base
Oct 2020 - Jun 2024
The base Kubernetes yaml files to deploy the cookie-cutter Ping Identity software stack onto a Kubernetes cluster
Contributions:126 pushes, 22 branches, 4 tags in 3 years 7 months
ping-identitysoftware-identitysoftware-stackcookie-cutterk8s
usaa/sonar-quality-gates
Oct 2018 - Jul 2021
A Gradle plugin to specify quality gates/profiles on a project and verify gates were passed.
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 8 months
gradlegatesspecifyverifyquality-gates
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