Jeff Lane
Datacenter Operations Manager
North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Lane is a seasoned datacenter and engineering leader with 15+ years driving Linux, server certification, and lab operations at scale, currently managing Canonical’s Server Certification programme and a nearly 600-server datacenter estate. He blends hands-on technical depth—Ubuntu, OpenStack, KVM, Xen, VMware, and multi-architecture hardware (x86, POWER8+, ARM64, s390x)—with partner-facing leadership, having designed multiple certification programs and trained OEM/IHV engineers worldwide. Jeff has built certification tooling and policies from scratch, led global lab moves and facility design, and still racked cables and performed DCE duties when needed, showing a rare mix of strategic program ownership and operational grit. An at-large OpenStack Foundation member with prior Open Compute Project involvement and college-level Linux teaching experience, he excels at translating complex hardware/OS validation needs into repeatable, automated processes.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
AS Computer Programming, AS Computer Programming at Central Carolina Community College
Github Skills (128)
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sctp10
stress-testing10
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cpu10
checker10
bandwidth10
tcp10
selectable10
gnuradio10
linux9
snap9
monorepo9
ubuntu9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/serverlab-testflinger
Sep 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:18 reviews, 17 PRs, 37 pushes in 10 months
bladernr/random-task
Feb 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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