Steve Lacy
Software Engineer at Wing
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSteve Lacy is a seasoned software engineer with 15+ years in Silicon Valley building both large-scale infrastructure in C++ and user-facing Python/Django web applications. He has driven high-impact projects at Google (including early video serving and CDN work for YouTube) and currently contributes to systems at Wing, bringing deep experience across startups and mature engineering organizations. Steve founded Proovn, applying data-driven crawling and entity resolution to reinvent engineering recruiting, showing a strong product and entrepreneurial instinct. An active contributor to open-source, he improved cross-platform PostgreSQL detection in the widely used psycopg2 adapter, demonstrating attention to portability and maintainability. Based in Mountain View, he blends low-level systems expertise with practical web and backend engineering to deliver resilient, scalable services.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics/Computer Science, BS, Mathematics/Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
python
Github Skills (7)
databases10
driver10
postgresql10
python10
database10
windows9
subprocess8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
psycopg/psycopg2
Jun 2011 - Jun 2011
PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `pg_config` detection code within the `psycopg2` library. Their work involved creating a dedicated class for path and state management, enhancing the robustness of PostgreSQL configuration detection across various operating systems, especially Windows. They also addressed code style issues and unified the MSVC compiler detection process, enhancing code maintainability and consistency. These changes directly impact how the library interacts with PostgreSQL databases.
database-adapterpython-programmingdriverpythonpostgresql-database
slacy/double-metaphone
Oct 2012 - Dec 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 9 years 3 months
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