Lance Linder
Senior Software Engineer at Tetrate
United States
Summary
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RockstarLance Linder is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years focused on solving authorization at scale and building reliable backend systems. Currently at Tetrate, he brings deep experience from principal and senior engineering roles at SmartThings, Medicom, and other enterprises where he combined software development with DevOps and analytics support. He has hands-on expertise in distributed systems and storage optimizations, evidenced by contributions to the widely used Zipkin tracing project where he improved Cassandra storage performance and addressed security CVEs. Lance’s background spans aviation and healthcare domains, giving him a pragmatic, operations-oriented approach to designing secure, auditable access controls. He’s comfortable shipping fixes across the stack—from database query optimizations to dependency and container upgrades—while keeping production stability front of mind. Notably, his career-long focus on “who gets access to what” informs pragmatic, scalable authorization designs that balance security and usability.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Thai
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Github Skills (13)
distributed-tracing10
javas10
docker10
back-end-development10
cassandra10
dockers10
java10
spring-boot10
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openzipkin/zipkin
Nov 2016 - Dec 2022
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 25 commits, 54 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lance primarily contributed to the backend of the Zipkin distributed tracing system. Their commits focused on database interactions, specifically modifying and optimizing Cassandra storage. Key contributions include changes to span name and service name lookups, as well as implementing optimizations to avoid blocking fetches in the Cassandra store and Docker related updates. The user also addressed CVEs by upgrading dependencies related to Armeria, Spring, and Java base container.
opentelemetrydistributedtracingopenzipkinobservability
llinder/scala-sbt
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:6 releases, 4 pushes, 6 tags in 2 years 2 months
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