Rick Lane
Account Executive Manufacturing at Splunk
Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, United States
Summary
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RockstarRick Lane is an account executive specializing in manufacturing with seven years of experience bridging technical platforms and enterprise sales from Pleasant Ridge, Michigan. He currently drives manufacturing-focused opportunities at Databricks after scaling strategic accounts and security/operations solutions at Splunk. Rick pairs commercial acumen with hands-on DevOps experience—having contributed to the popular Emissary Ingress open-source project by improving CI/CD, test workflows, and build reliability. That combination helps him translate complex cloud-native and data infrastructure needs into pragmatic, revenue-driving solutions for industrial customers. Colleagues rely on him to balance technical credibility with clear commercial outcomes, and he often surfaces engineering-level improvements that accelerate customer value.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
kubernetes10
gnu-make10
docker10
makefile10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
python9
convoy9
api-gateway9
envoyproxy9
automation9
automations9
kubernetes-ingress9
env9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
emissary-ingress/emissary
Mar 2020 - Jun 2024
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:52 reviews, 21 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rick primarily focused on improving the build and CI/CD processes for the Emissary Ingress project. Their contributions include setting up Python virtual environments, refactoring image cache handling for greater readability, splitting integration tests into distinct actions, and updating CRD status updates. They also addressed build artifact cleanup, ensuring build system functions correctly and refactored the environment variable, enhancing overall maintainability and usability.
api-gatewayproxyreverse-proxyambassadorapi-management
puppetlabs/relay-client-go
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Provides client connectivity to Relay
Contributions:4 reviews, 33 PRs, 43 pushes in 11 months
connectivityreactrelay
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