Lanny Ripple
Software Engineering LMTS at Salesforce
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolLanny Ripple is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 30 years of experience and 16 years in senior roles, currently working on big-data systems at Salesforce. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Scala, Perl, and C with proven architecture and systems administration skills across Unix, relational and NoSQL ecosystems (Spark, Cassandra, Kafka, Hadoop, Solr, Postgres, Oracle). Lanny has led and scaled engineering teams in startups and enterprise environments—running production Hadoop/Cassandra clusters, building infrastructure tooling, and managing cross-functional delivery. He favors pragmatic solutions that make computers serve people, not the other way around, and brings both low-level systems perspective and strategic planning to platform reliability and data engineering. Based in Houston, he combines tenure at companies like Cisco and SpotRight with a practical academic grounding from Texas A&M.
16 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, Major: Computer Science, Minor: Mathematics, B.S., Computer Science, Major: Computer Science, Minor: Mathematics at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (139)
liquibase9
websocket9
http-client9
database-management9
dotty9
maintenance9
database-migrations9
scala9
http-server9
getopt8
database8
jackson8
zio8
elasticsearch8
extensible8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
LannyRipple/btw-build
Aug 2018 - Apr 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 9 months
SpotRight/SpotExcel
Oct 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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