Summary
Lance Feagan is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years building high-performance, secure systems for IoT, blockchain, and time-series workloads, currently leading development of a Snowflake-inspired decoupled time-series database at Molex that cut cloud costs 10x while delivering 10–100x ingest and query gains. He blends deep systems and cryptography expertise—having designed MPC signing algorithms, CloudHSM browser-based auth, and novel on-disk time-series+graph structures at IBM—with hands-on startup experience in hardware, patents, and product strategy. Comfortable from kernel- and API-level design to cloud orchestration, he has shipped end-to-end platforms (MQTT ingest, unified SQL grammar, GCP Kubernetes automation) that prioritize real-world operational efficiency. Lance also teaches and mentors, translating research into production-grade software and pragmatic business plans, and brings an unusual mix of academic rigor and shop-floor practicality learned from building both prototypes and patented IoT hardware.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
High School, High School at The Pembroke Hill School
BS, Engineering, BS, Engineering at Harvey Mudd College
English, Japanese, Chinese