Michael Lancaster
Lead Software Engineer at Mission Lane
Costa Mesa, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Lancaster is a Lead Software Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building scalable front-end systems and developer tooling from Costa Mesa, CA. He blends technical leadership and individual contribution, having led Cloud UI engineering and managed teams at BlackBerry before taking on senior and lead roles at Endpoint and Mission Lane. Michael is a full-stack-minded front-end specialist fluent in React, Angular, TypeScript, Electron and modern CI/CD practices, with a track record improving developer productivity via UI kits, testing, and infrastructure. As a founder of Padaone, he shipped a marketplace and video-enabled apps using Go, GCP, Firebase, Next.js and React Native, showing a strong product-to-code sensibility. He contributes to open source—helping enhance the popular Soundnode desktop SoundCloud client—demonstrating persistent interest in real user-facing UX improvements. Colleagues credit him for combining pragmatic architecture with a focus on stability, documentation and mentoring across fast-moving teams.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Colégio Objetivo (Brazil)Technical in Computer Science -, Technical in Computer Science - at Technical College of Computer Science - Divino Salvador (Brazil)
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Github Skills (7)
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angular10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Soundnode/soundnode-app
Apr 2014 - Oct 2018
Soundnode App is the Soundcloud for desktop. Built with Electron, Angular.js and Soundcloud API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 514 commits, 311 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and application features. They implemented analytics integration, fixed stream issues related to API updates, and updated the application version. Further contributions include adding tooltip to track titles, adding shortcuts to improve user experience, and improving the presentation and usability of the queue list. These updates likely involved JavaScript (Angular.js), and Electron based components.
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weblancaster/michaellancaster
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:9 PRs, 10 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 1 month
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