Lance French
Manager, Site Reliability Engineering at Lightspeed Commerce
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolLance French is a seasoned site reliability and infrastructure leader with 12 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native operations, release engineering, and infrastructure automation across startups and enterprise teams. He has progressed from Linux system administration and early AWS adoption to managing SRE and data engineering teams for companies like Pushpay and Lightspeed Commerce, plus deep customer-facing architecture work at VMware and Pivotal. Lance combines technical depth in service containerization, monitoring, and security with a pragmatic management style focused on process maturity, cost reduction, and mentoring junior engineers. Based in Auckland, he brings a rare blend of sales-engineering empathy and operational rigor—able to translate business needs into resilient, automated platforms. An early adopter of new infrastructure tech, he often surfaces operational best practices that reduce release friction while scaling services.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor of Science (BS) Business Administration and Management General at Wake Forest University
Github Skills (85)
pivotal9
amazon-web-services9
aws9
cookbook9
amazon9
cloud-foundry8
bootloader8
director8
concourse8
bosh8
sst8
command-line-utility8
tflint8
pipeline7
foundry7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lancefrench/leetcode
Feb 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:336 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
lancefrench/packer
Aug 2017 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
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