Summary
Lance Geng is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years in senior technology roles and two decades of hands-on web and e-commerce development experience. Currently VP of Engineering at Teak (rebranded from Protecht), he has a track record of building and scaling distributed platform, mobile, and streaming teams across cloud-native and multimedia products. Lance excels at transforming engineering practices—driving migrations to the cloud, adopting Agile, and cutting operational costs while reducing technical debt and regressions. He has led full platform rebuilds, introduced GraphQL and modernized mobile stacks (Objective-C→Swift, Java→Kotlin), and brought previously outsourced capabilities back in-house to improve stability and velocity. An entrepreneur at heart, he founded and ran agencies serving e-commerce and creative clients, combining product sensibility with technical delivery. Based in Austin, he balances people-first leadership with a persistent curiosity for teaching and continuous improvement.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer