Lance Whatley
Founder CEO at Moontography, LLC
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLance Whatley is a founder and software leader with a decade of experience blending customer-facing roles and backend engineering to build practical, user-focused systems. He moved from technical coordination and professional services into backend engineering and management, culminating in founding Moontography to explore blockchain, decentralization, and digital currency. Lance has led engineering teams and shipped resilient server-side systems at SaaS and security-focused companies, and contributed performance and reliability improvements to open-source Node.js tooling (notably optimizing node-resque Redis interactions and test coverage). His background in biomedical engineering and hands-on client delivery gives him a systems-thinking approach to product design and operational reliability. Based in Atlanta, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a focus on measurable performance gains and pragmatic automation.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Biomedical Engineering, B.S., Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (19)
resque10
redis10
testing10
queuing10
nodejs10
queue10
javascript9
typescript9
typescript-types9
vue9
typescripts9
async-await6
react6
sql6
fetch6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
actionhero/node-resque
Sep 2018 - Apr 2021
Node.js Background jobs backed by redis.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Lance primarily focused on improving the `node-resque` codebase by implementing performance optimizations and adding new functionalities. They refactored the Redis interaction by introducing a recursive scan to improve efficiency, replaced `getKeys` calls with a scan-based approach. Additionally, the user added a new feature to delete jobs by function, and implemented unit tests to validate the `getKeys` function, ensuring code quality and maintainability. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the library's performance and reliability.
backgroundjobsredisresquenode-js
whatl3y/sports-schedules-scores
Aug 2017 - Aug 2020
Easily browse schedules & scores for all teams for popular sports & leagues.
Contributions:73 commits, 5 PRs, 49 pushes in 3 years
schedulesjavascriptscoresleaguesbrowse
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