Lance Wicks
Software Engineering Manager at Broadbean Technology
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorLance Wicks is a software engineering manager with 17 years' experience building and leading teams across Node.js, Python and Perl on AWS, currently managing development at Broadbean Technology and Veritone. He combines hands-on coding with operational leadership, having run live-production infrastructure for the International Judo Federation—powering scoreboards, draws and global video streaming at elite events. A founder and developer of Fantasy-Judo.com, Lance built a multilingual, Go-based fantasy sports platform with an active international user base since 2019. He is an active polyglot contributor (notably to the Perl Weekly Challenge knowledge base) and enjoys experimenting with Elm and ROC-lang, bringing both backend scripting depth and frontend sensibility. Outside of engineering he’s a long-time judo coach and competition IT lead, blending product thinking with domain expertise that few software managers possess.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
solve10
perl10
elm10
solution10
backend9
back-end-development9
algorithms8
algorithm8
implement8
front-end-development8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
manwar/perlweeklychallenge-club
Aug 2020 - Oct 2021
Knowledge base for The Weekly Challenge club members using Perl, Raku, Ada, APL, Awk, Bash, BASIC, Bc, Befunge-93, Bourne Shell, BQN, Brainfuck, C3, C, CESIL, C++, C#, Clojure, COBOL, Coconut, Crystal, D, Dart, Dc, Elm, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Excel VBA, Fennel, Fish, Forth, Fortran, Gembase, GNAT, Go, Haskell, Haxe, HTML, Idris, IO, J, Janet, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Lisp, Lua, M4, Miranda, Modula 3, MMIX, Mumps, Myrddin, Nim, Nix, Node.js, Nuweb, OCaml, Odin, Ook, Pascal, PHP, Python, Postscript, Prolog, R, Ring, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, Sed, Smalltalk, SQL, Swift, Tcl, TypeScript, Visual BASIC, WebAssembly, Wolfram, XSLT and Zig.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 35 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Lance primarily contributes solutions to the Weekly Challenge club using various programming languages, focusing on both backend logic and some frontend implementations. Their work includes developing solutions in Perl and Elm, demonstrating proficiency in both backend scripting and front-end web development. Furthermore, they created supporting modules and scripts, and adapted code for different challenges. These contributions showcase a broad skillset spanning multiple programming languages and problem-solving approaches.
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lancew/WRL_hacks
Jun 2014 - Aug 2021
IJF WRL Hacks
Contributions:175 commits, 3 PRs, 112 pushes in 7 years 3 months
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