Lyon Lay
Co-Founder at Thresh Power
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLyon Lay is a software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and now co-founding Thresh Power to apply LLM-driven information retrieval to due diligence for climate and infrastructure acquisitions. Previously he led cross-team reliability and telemetry initiatives at PagerDuty, shipping standardized SLOs and a memory-scaled Service Graph, and helped decarbonize the grid at Voltus by integrating distributed energy resources. Lyon’s background spans big data, DevOps, and full-stack web development—from Spark and Elasticsearch to Go and JS—combined with hands-on product delivery at startups. He pairs technical depth with operational rigor, a track record of reducing high-severity outages, and a non-obvious pattern of translating research and teaching experience into practical tools and mentoring. Based in San Francisco, he also advises STEM education efforts connecting young women to technical careers.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Toronto
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
kubernetes9
collector9
python9
opentelemetry8
telemetry8
tempo8
yeoman8
google-cloud-tasks7
opentelemetry-collector7
otel7
cereal6
serialization5
observability5
tiles5
json4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
LLay/muse_nanoleaf
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 34 pushes, 13 branches in 3 months
Etragas/bookNotes
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 comment in 9 months
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