Kyle Lanmon
Senior Software Engineer at Modern Intelligence
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Lanmon is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building production systems from OS-level tools to mobile and web frontends, currently driving engineering and delivery at Modern Intelligence after a multi-year tenure at Meta. He has a track record of performance-led improvements—rewriting Python to C++ to cut latency 90%, building a Rust query engine that reduced latency by 70%, and designing high-throughput pipelines that processed billions in transactions. Kyle mentors engineers and leads large teams, turning ad-hoc escalations into repeatable customer delivery practices and helping multiple direct reports earn promotions. An active open-source contributor, he has notable contributions to the widely watched SerenityOS and the Jakt programming language, improving syntax highlighting, editor ergonomics, and compiler type checking. Based in Austin and trained in Computer Science at Baylor, he combines systems-level depth with product-focused delivery and a penchant for shipping pragmatic, measurable results. A small, telling detail: his GitHub bio is the lowercase letter "l", hinting at a minimalist, code-first sensibility.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Baylor University
Github Skills (27)
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type-check10
text-editor10
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compiler-design10
lexical-analysis10
front-end-development10
cplus10
code-editor10
type-checking10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
jak10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SerenityOS/jakt
May 2022 - Oct 2022
The Jakt Programming Language
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 142 commits, 79 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the Jakt programming language implementation, focusing on enhancing the type checker and lexer components. They implemented features such as validating numeric literals, adding new tokens, and parsing language constructs. The user also worked on the self-hosted compiler, adding support for features like enums and improving error handling and code generation. They demonstrated proficiency in language design and compiler development.
jaktcompilerprogramming-languageinterpreterserenityos
SerenityOS/serenity
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
The Serenity Operating System 🐞
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 14 commits, 12 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kyle contributed to the SerenityOS project by implementing features related to the text editor component, including keyboard shortcuts for commenting and uncommenting code, and adding a utility to keep a range of text within a line. They also significantly enhanced the syntax highlighting capabilities by teaching each highlighter about its comment syntax, covering multiple programming languages and file types. Furthermore, they refactored the codebase to use constants for line spacing.
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