Lane Sawyer
Senior Software Engineer at Allen Institute
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLane Sawyer is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building accessible, user-centered web applications and full-stack systems using .NET, Node.js, React, GraphQL, and AWS. He led large migrations and code-quality initiatives—driving a React-to-Astro migration and fixing 1500+ TypeScript strictness issues—to reduce production bugs and improve developer velocity. Comfortable across the stack, Lane has delivered performance wins (cutting a message-processing job from 5 hours to 10 minutes) and established repeatable release and testing practices including Playwright and Storybook. A proponent of ethical, privacy-respecting User Centered Design, he contributes to open source, obsessively follows Rust and JavaScript ecosystem trends, and balances technical curiosity with outdoor pursuits like hiking and rock climbing.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Master of Science (MS), Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS), Master of Science (MS), Management Information Systems at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (175)
zero-configuration10
parser10
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
ember10
positional-arguments10
isolation10
conventional-commits10
getopt10
javascript10
build-configuration10
command-line-parser10
html10
compiler10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lanesawyer/dicebag
May 2021 - Feb 2022
A collection of useful tools for running or participating in D&D
Contributions:1 review, 41 commits, 154 PRs in 9 months
useful-toolsparticipating
lanesawyer/advent-of-code
Dec 2017 - Dec 2024
Advent of Code challenge
Contributions:2 PRs, 104 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 1 month
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