Summary
Lincoln Mcfarland is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience building reliable tooling and telemetry systems, currently focused on Python-driven cloud services at Mainspring Energy in Mountain View. He excels at translating domain problems into clear, maintainable code and test-driven designs, with deep experience in Python and C/C++ and working knowledge of Go, JavaScript, Java, SQL, and Unix tooling. His work spans infrastructure automation (Terraform, BigQuery), streaming telemetry, and containerized services, and he has a track record of rapidly learning new stacks—once shipping a Go/Fluent Bit/BigTable plugin within a week despite starting from zero. Lincoln pairs pragmatic engineering with strong developer ergonomics: producing pip packages, pytest-based system tests, developer how-tos, and integration tooling that reduce friction for teams and customers. A UC Berkeley physics graduate, he maintains public code on GitHub and favors solutions that are as expressive for future maintainers as they are for machines.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at University of California, Berkeley
English