Nanci Lancaster
Senior Lead, Engineering Operations Heroku
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNanci Lancaster is a senior engineering operations leader with eight years of experience orchestrating complex programs across cloud platforms and developer communities. Currently leading Engineering Operations for Heroku at Salesforce, she has a track record of turning strategic ideas into tracked, budgeted, and launched initiatives across AWS, VMware/Broadcom, and major open source ecosystems. Nanci combines event and community-building expertise—having run large-scale CFPs and KubeCon programs and grown contributor and user engagement for projects like Carvel and Buildpacks—with rigorous program management that includes executive-facing business reviews and cross-functional coordination. She excels at operationalizing governance, roadmaps, and SLAs to unblock engineering teams and scale projects, and she’s comfortable presenting data-driven recommendations to VP-level leaders. A longtime SXSW advisor and events strategist, she brings an uncommon blend of conference-stage logistics and cloud-native program leadership that amplifies product adoption and contributor growth.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Geography - Urban and Regional Planning, Bachelor of Science (BS) Geography - Urban and Regional Planning at Texas State UniversityRecreation Parks and Tourism Sciences, Recreation Parks and Tourism Sciences at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (94)
yaml-processor10
cap10
controller10
identity10
authentication10
historical10
security10
carvel10
svg10
declarative10
serverless10
cri-o10
namespaces10
cloud-native10
k8s10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microwavables/carvel-imgpkg
Jan 2022 - Aug 2023
Store application configuration files in Docker/OCI registries
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
registriesdockerconfiguration-filesoci-registriesapplication-configuration
microwavables/carvel-kapp-controller
Jan 2022 - Aug 2023
Continuous delivery and package management for Kubernetes.
Contributions:2 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
orchestrationdevopscontinuoussaask8s
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