Lace Lofranco
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolLace Lofranco is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building cloud-native data platforms, developer tooling, and analytics solutions. She has progressed from hands-on quant and architect roles to senior engineering leadership, combining deep technical expertise in Azure, DataOps, and CI/CD with team coaching and delivery ownership. Notable contributions include automating deployments and multi-stage pipelines for Microsoft's modern-data-warehouse-dataops sample repository, reflecting a strong focus on infrastructure-as-code and data quality. Prior roles span large-scale energy forecasting, IoT predictive maintenance, and founding a quantitative trading platform, showing a blend of data science, big-data engineering, and product-minded engineering. Based in Queensland, Australia, she brings a pragmatic, multi-disciplinary perspective that consistently translates complex analytics and cloud challenges into production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Cum Laude, BS Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Cum Laude, BS Management Information Systems, Information Technology at Ateneo de Manila UniversityPhilippine Science High SchoolInformation Technology, Information Technology at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Filipino, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
azure-devops-server10
dataops10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
cicd10
azure-devops10
azure10
cloudera6
highcharts6
powerbi6
sparkr6
azure-data-factory6
databricks6
apache-spark6
javascript6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/modern-data-warehouse-dataops
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
DataOps for Microsoft Data Platform technologies. https://aka.ms/dataops-repo
Role in this project:
DevOps & Cloud Engineer
DevOps & Cloud EngineerContributions:174 reviews, 118 commits, 227 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lace's contributions primarily focused on automating the deployment of Azure resources and CI/CD pipelines for the "modern-data-warehouse-dataops" repository. They implemented automated deployment scripts for Azure SQL Database, service connections, and Azure DevOps pipelines. These pipelines include validation of pull requests, build processes, and multi-stage deployments, demonstrating a focus on infrastructure-as-code and streamlined delivery. Further contributions show enhancements to data quality, integration testing, and various other deployment script improvements.
databricksdatafactorywarehousedatadevops
devlace/datadevops-fork
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:44 PRs, 162 pushes, 30 branches in 1 month
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