Lance Norskog
Principal Data Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolLance Norskog is a Principal Data Engineer with 15+ years building and operating large-scale data, search, and Hadoop ecosystems for enterprise and high-growth companies. Based in San Jose, he specializes in taking requirements through design, implementation, QA, and support for scalable Java systems, Solr/Lucene search, logging/monitoring pipelines, and analytics platforms. His career includes senior roles at Walmart Global Tech, Adobe, Edmodo, and LucidWorks, where he migrated analytics stacks to cost-effective cloud solutions and implemented resilient logging and Airflow-driven workflows. A former Unix kernel and networking engineer who once sold a standalone TCP/IP implementation, he blends deep systems-level experience with modern data engineering practices. Self-taught in machine learning and an active blogger, he favors practical, production-hardened solutions that prioritize observability and reliability. He selectively connects only with colleagues he knows, reflecting a pragmatic, results-focused professional style.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Stackoverflow
121reputation
16kreached
1answer
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Github Skills (179)
python10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
deep-learning10
orchestration10
sql-query10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
ml10
sql10
neural-network10
monitor10
data-science10
apache10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
LanceNorskog/simple-hal
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:83 commits, 3 pushes in 2 months
substitutionapistringsimplifiednodejs
LanceNorskog/deep_meter
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:195 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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