Lucas Connors
Engineering Manager at Optro
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLucas Connors is an engineering manager in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building backend architectures, developer tools, and data-driven products. He progressed from backend and full‑stack roles to senior and staff engineering positions before moving into management, shipping systems that scale from high‑QPS Google endpoints to multi‑million‑row database migrations. Lucas has led architecture and platform initiatives—adding Snowflake as an execution engine, designing custom DSLs and parsers, and decoupling monolithic workflows into modular services—to broaden customer reach and reduce cognitive overhead for engineers. He pairs hands‑on coding (DSLs, auth migrations, anomaly detection, and cloud deployments) with pragmatic operational improvements like CI modernization and onboarding flow redesigns. Known for empathic product thinking, he focuses on how real people live and work to shape more satisfying digital experiences. Based in the Bay Area and educated at Waterloo, he brings a blend of technical depth and user-centered perspective that surfaces non-obvious usability and extensibility gains.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BCS, Honours Computer Science Co-op, BCS, Honours Computer Science Co-op at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (198)
python10
django-framework10
weighted10
tabletop10
django10
docker-compose10
pinax10
django-apps10
lru10
music10
stripe-api10
django-cache10
docker10
docker-image10
packaging10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
infoscout/kvstore
Mar 2016 - Aug 2018
Django app that allows you to easily tag a django db object with key/value pairs.
Contributions:10 releases, 6 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 5 months
pythonkey-value-pairsdjangokey-valuepairs
infoscout/flavourdetect
May 2017 - Jan 2019
Django app detects the user device and serves up the appropriate template
Contributions:4 releases, 19 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 8 months
pythondjangoservespython-3python3
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