Kyle Lacy
Open Source Developer at Brioche.dev
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarKyle Lacy is a polyglot open source developer with 13 years of experience building resilient, well-tested systems across front-end, back-end, desktop, mobile, games and even driver code. Based in Vancouver, Washington, he blends systems-level work—improving Xbox controller drivers and compiling custom GCC toolchains—with cloud-native infrastructure and DevOps, running build caches on Fly.io and Cloudflare R2. He’s currently leading Brioche, a Rust- and TypeScript-driven package manager/build tool inspired by Nix and Docker, while also contributing backend and infra improvements to projects like Plane. Past roles span insuretech and fintech where he optimized pricing engines, ported services to serverless architectures, and improved observability with tracing and logging. An esoteric language enthusiast, he brings curiosity-driven exploration to practical engineering problems and mentors contributors through open-source maintainership and documentation.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (39)
c-language10
python10
django10
configuration-management10
e-mail10
device-driver10
driver10
macos10
cprogramming-language10
ajax9
celery9
json9
objective-c9
iokit9
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
360Controller/360Controller
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
TattieBogle Xbox 360 Driver (with improvements)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on improving the functionality and user experience of the Xbox 360 controller driver. They addressed issues related to Xbox One controller compatibility by modifying product strings. Further contributions include refactoring button remapping logic, and fixing bugs related to the saving and restoring of controller preferences. Additionally, the user enhanced the display of controller names and improved wireless controller support.
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makeplane/plane
Apr 2023 - Oct 2023
🔥 🔥 🔥 Open Source JIRA, Linear, Monday, and Asana Alternative. Plane helps you track your issues, epics, and cycles the easiest way on the planet.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 PR, 3 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on enhancing the backend and infrastructure of the Plane application. They implemented SMTP configuration options, including port and TLS settings. Additionally, the user added settings to control TLS for the Celery broker connection and to customize the sender email address. Moreover, the user updated the build configurations by adding image domains and removing redundant configurations.
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