Lane Wagner
Founder Grand Magus (same Thing) at Boot.dev
Saint George, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLane Wagner is a founder and engineering leader with nine years of experience building backend systems, developer-first learning platforms, and real-time services using Go, JavaScript, and Python. As the founder of Boot.dev he applies game-design principles to teach backend development, and previously led teams at Reputation, NUVI, and startups to ship high-throughput data pipelines, real-time messaging, and scalable audio streaming. He’s a hands-on manager who still contributes code—open-source work includes a resilient Go RabbitMQ wrapper and backend changes to CI/CD learning material—while experimenting with Rust and Zig in spare time. Based in St. George, Utah, Lane is passionate about blending SSR and SPA approaches for client-first webapps and enjoys fostering team learning (often to the soundtrack of Vampire Weekend).
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Dixie State University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
75reputation
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
electron10
go-language10
typescript10
cross-platform10
rabbitmq10
publish10
go10
typescript-types10
golang10
customer10
typescripts10
api-design9
restful-api9
middleware9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
wagslane/go-rabbitmq
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
A wrapper of streadway/amqp that provides reconnection logic and sane defaults
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 98 commits, 73 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Lane's commits primarily involve modifications to the `amqp` library wrapper for RabbitMQ, specifically focusing on channel management, message handling, and publishing logic. They've introduced variadic function options and refactored code related to consumer and publisher configurations. The contributions also include updates to examples.
golanggolang-libraryrabbitmq-consumerrabbitmq-producergo
bootdotdev/learn-cicd-starter
May 2023 - Mar 2024
The starter code for the "Learn CICD" course on Boot.dev
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 7 PRs, 12 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Lane contributed to the `chi` library, which suggests server-side development. The commits show modifications to the `mux.go` file, involving code changes, and modifications in several other files. These changes likely relate to the implementation of a web server framework, handling HTTP requests, defining routes, and managing middleware. This indicates a focus on building and maintaining the core backend functionality of the project.
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