Summary
Xander Lamkins is a Senior Escalation Manager with nine years of hands-on IT and support leadership experience, currently elevating incident response and customer outcomes at Okta from his base near Raleigh, NC. He blends deep technical troubleshooting across complex enterprise stacks (file servers, directories, cloud platforms, proxies, messaging, search) with people-first management—having led teams, refined KPIs, and authored cross-team playbooks. At Varonis he shepherded high-impact tooling and telemetry projects, including an internally adopted browser extension that streamlined Salesforce-driven support workflows for 80+ engineers. Comfortable as a Tier III technical resource and liaison to engineering, he routinely tackles novel, time-critical escalations for large-scale environments and petabyte-scale data flows. Outside work he writes software and contributes to open source, bringing a builder’s mentality to operational problems and automation.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Business Administration, Computer Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Information Systems at Florida Institute of Technology
English