Lance Ivy
Principal Software Engineer at Ameelio
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
🤩
RockstarLance Ivy is a Principal Software Engineer in Portland with 19 years of experience building product-focused platforms and founding technical teams at multiple startups. He excels at bridging product and engineering—owning roadmaps, mentoring teams, and shipping fast to find market fit—while remaining a hands-on contributor to critical system layers. Lance helped architect and scale early Kickstarter and UserVoice systems, later leading platform stability and strategic upgrades at high-growth companies. He favors pragmatic stacks (TypeScript/React/GraphQL and Ruby/Rails) and has a strong open-source footprint, including backend improvements to prominent Ruby projects like Sidekiq and Fog. Comfortable in both leadership and deep-technical roles, he often surfaces subtle reliability improvements (e.g., addressing thundering-herd polling in Sidekiq) that pay off disproportionately in production.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (21)
apim10
ruby-rails10
background-process10
background-processing10
rails10
jobservice10
background-worker10
refactor10
sidekiq10
ruby10
job-search10
api10
activerecord10
background-task10
refactoring10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
fog/fog
Mar 2013 - Feb 2014
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Lance primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Fog library. Their contributions included converting the `lib/fog.rb` file to include all provider files and ensuring each provider sets up its own requires. They added benchmark tests to compare Fog's load times and modified the code to allow individual service requirements. The user also ensured each service requires its provider and removed the dependency on CloudFormation for Openstack orchestration.
cloud-servicesrubygemstest-kitchenfogruby
activescaffold/active_scaffold
Jan 2008 - Jan 2009
Save time and headaches, and create a more easily maintainable set of pages, with ActiveScaffold. ActiveScaffold handles all your CRUD (create, read, update, delete) user interface needs, leaving you more time to focus on more challenging (and interesting!) problems.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Lance primarily focused on fixing and improving the `active_scaffold` library, which simplifies CRUD operations in Rails applications. Their contributions involved addressing compatibility issues with newer versions of Rails, specifically focusing on template rendering and view path extensions. The user also made modifications to the `to_label` method and error handling to improve usability.
ruby-on-railsuser-interfacerails-apiheadachesrails
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.