Lena Garber
Senior Lead Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLena Garber is a Senior Lead Software Engineer based in Atlanta with three years of hands-on experience building cloud-native developer tooling, SDKs, and CLIs. She leads an agile team at Akamai responsible for IaC tooling, the official CLI, and third-party integrations, while acting as DRI on cross-team initiatives and mentoring new engineers. Lena is an active open-source contributor — notably enhancing the official Linode CLI with nested/list argument support, Python 3 fixes, aliases, and improved documentation to boost cross-platform usability. She combines deep DevOps and cloud computing expertise with practical product-minded engineering, frequently shaping architecture and team processes to accelerate delivery. Colleagues rely on her to translate customer and vendor feedback into usable automation and developer experiences.
3 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science (in progress), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science (in progress) at Kennesaw State University
Github Skills (7)
command-line-tool10
python10
documentation10
cloud-computing9
infrastructure8
api-design8
rest-api7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
linode/linode-cli
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
The official Linode command line interface.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 345 reviews, 86 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Lena primarily focused on enhancing the command-line interface's functionality and usability. Their contributions included adding features like support for nested and list arguments, improving the documentation to explain these features, and adding aliases for actions. They also made various fixes for Python 3 compatibility, ensuring the CLI's cross-platform operability and maintainability. Moreover, the user updated the documentation with supporting information and improved the overall user experience of the CLI.
command-line-toollinodeinfrastructurelinode-clicloud
lgarber-akamai/kontainer-engine-driver-lke
Oct 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 11 months
clusterkubernetesdockerrancher
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