LanceΒ Sloan
Senior Application Developer
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLance E Sloan is a Senior Application Developer at the University of Michigan with three decades tied to U-M ITS and over 10 years of focused application development experience. He architects and maintains long-lived web systemsβmost notably the Regents' Proceedings Index he began as a Python CGI in 2001 and recently rewrote as KarpeLiber using Django, Docker, OpenShift, and AWS. Comfortable across the full stack, Lance brings deep Python experience dating back to 2001 and has even contributed to the Python PEPs. Based in Ann Arbor, he blends institutional knowledge of academic systems with pragmatic modernization skills, favoring durable, maintainable solutions that evolve rather than get rewritten every few years.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Michigan9β12, 9β12 at Durand Area High School
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (188)
programming-language10
json-data10
python10
json-schema10
emoji10
streaming-algorithms10
miller10
indexed10
ruby10
sed10
data-cleaning10
specification10
tabular10
command-line-tool10
schema10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
regents-umich-edu/KarpeLiber
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
π§ ππ£πππ§ πΎπ€π£π¨π©π§πͺππ©ππ€π£ π§ β A flexible index management application for books, with links to online libraries. Developed for the University of Michigan's Regents' Proceedings Index.
Contributions:1 release, 112 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 1 month
index-managementproceedingsindexmichiganuniversity-of-michigan
sloanlance/KarpeLiber
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
π§ ππ£πππ§ πΎπ€π£π¨π©π§πͺππ©ππ€π£ π§ β A flexible index management application for books, with links to online libraries. Developed for the University of Michigan's Regents' Proceedings Index.
Contributions:5 releases, 38 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 10 months
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