Lars Wander
Senior Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLars Wander is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently optimizing storage for AI/ML accelerators at Google in New York. He has deep hands-on expertise in Spinnaker and Terraform—contributing to major open-source projects to streamline CI/CD, GCP provider integrations, and Kubernetes deployment workflows. Lars blends backend, DevOps, and automation skills, from implementing GCP resources and image-baking pipelines to hardening release scripts and artifact handling. His work shows a knack for pragmatic refactors and reliability improvements, such as decryption streamlining in release pipelines and optimistic locking for metadata. Outside engineering he produces programmatically generated art that has exhibited internationally, reflecting a creative approach to systems and data.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (82)
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terraform10
gcp10
javas10
automation10
google-cloud10
rest-api10
client-library10
artifactory10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
lwander/spin-kub-demo
Jun 2016 - Mar 2017
Spinnaker code to prod demo for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 8 PRs, 26 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Lars primarily focused on modifying the front-end appearance of a web application. Their commits centered around changing the background color and text of the "Hello, world!" element within an `index.html` file. They made several iterations of color changes, demonstrating a focus on UI visual aspects. Additionally, a single commit suggests a potential fix related to content loading, indicating some familiarity with the application's structure.
kubernetesspinnakerprod
spinnaker/spinnaker
Nov 2015 - Jan 2019
Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:12 releases, 217 commits, 419 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lars primarily contributed to the deployment and configuration of Spinnaker on Kubernetes, specifically focusing on the automated setup process using instance metadata and scripts. They added functionality to install Spinnaker using Halyard, which is Spinnaker's configuration tool, along with setting up necessary storage, Google Cloud credentials, and Docker registries. The user also made numerous modifications to the installation scripts, and configuration files, indicating a significant involvement in setting up and automating the deployment of the Spinnaker platform.
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