Lance Helsten
Principal Software Engineer at Data Kinetic
Orem, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolLance Helsten is a Principal Software Engineer with 18 years of experience designing high-availability, fault-tolerant, service-oriented systems and shared-nothing architectures. He blends deep system and database design expertise (relational, graph, document) with practical RESTful middleware and schema design, plus hands-on mobile/full-stack development spanning Python, Swift, Objective-C, and C. A proven engineering leader, he has led agile transformations, introduced robust testing and CI practices, and architected scalable authorization and messaging systems used in enterprise-grade platforms. Lance has contributed to generative and predictive AI infrastructure and rebuilt critical data and logging pipelines to improve reliability and observability. Comfortable in both early-stage startups and large product teams, he also runs a long-lived freelance studio and has built consumer apps for iOS dating back to the platform’s early days. His background includes a rare mix of military technical leadership and advanced computational engineering education, which informs a disciplined, human-centered approach to system design.
18 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Utah Valley University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (26)
python10
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shell10
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zsh9
prezto9
golang7
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fileio6
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Github contributions (5)
FlyingTitans/localstack
Jun 2019 - Aug 2024
đź’» A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline!
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
serverless-cloudaws-cloudserverlessaws-lambdacloud
FlyingTitans/tbxutils
May 2008 - Oct 2018
Contributions:132 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 6 months
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