Lance Austin
Senior Engineer at CoreWeave
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLance Austin is a Senior Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, developer-focused systems across startups and enterprise environments. He has led architecture and full-stack development efforts using Kubernetes, Go, Angular, Spark and modern CI/CD on both Azure and AWS, and currently contributes to CoreWeave after a Principal Engineer role at Ambassador Labs. Lance has hands-on DevOps chops demonstrated by improving Emissary-Ingress build pipelines—adding Apple Silicon support, dependency upgrades, and Trivy vulnerability scanning—to streamline developer experience for a widely used Envoy-based API gateway. He combines strategic IT alignment experience from enterprise architect roles with practical mentoring of distributed engineering teams. Outside of work he trains for triathlons and studies languages, reflecting a disciplined, growth-minded approach that informs his engineering practice.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Information Systems Business Intelligence, Masters of Information Systems Business Intelligence at DePaul UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science & Business Information Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science & Business Information Systems at Aurora University
English
Github Skills (23)
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
devops10
envoyproxy9
env9
kubernetes9
microservices-application9
api-management9
kubernetes-pods9
automation-testing9
convoy9
api-gateway9
automation9
cloud-native9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
emissary-ingress/emissary
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:428 reviews, 140 commits, 421 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Lance primarily focused on improving the build process and CI/CD pipeline for the Emissary-Ingress project. Their contributions included implementing support for Apple Silicon (M1) developers by introducing a new environment variable, upgrading dependencies like protoc and helm chart-testing to enhance compatibility, and fixing merge conflicts. They also added container vulnerability scanning to the CI/CD build process using Trivy. These changes aimed to improve the developer experience and overall build quality for the project.
api-gatewayproxyreverse-proxyambassadorapi-management
LanceEa/office-addin-cc
May 2019 - May 2021
Office Addin Community Call Demo
Contributions:13 PRs, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
addinoffice-addin
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