Lane Wagner

Founder

St George, Utah, United States5 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

Founder of an innovative e-learning platform.
Expert in backend development with Go and Python.
Led teams to build successful tech products.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Development expert in EdTech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend DevelopmentE-learningTeam LeadershipReact NativeGoData EngineeringMachine LearningEmbedded SystemsWeb Development

Other Skills

Game DesignTypeScriptReal-time MessagingCI/CDSocial Media DataData StorageBigtableData TransformationPythonDjangoEmbedded SoftwareComputer ScienceVersatile WriterC++Public Speaking

About

I love to work in Go, JavaScript and Python, but I'm happy to use whatever tool is most suited for the job at hand. My two favorite daily activities are learning and teaching within my team, and listening to Vampire Weekend while I jam out some code. I've recently been on a Rust/Zig kick, doing some stuff on the side when I have time. I'm also interested in the marriage of the SSR/SPA world, and how we can build client-first webapps that still have certain pages that prerender immediately for SEO purposes.

Experience

Laltal

Head Of Engineering

Jul 2021 – Jan 2022 · 6 mos · Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

I led a team of developers as we built a gamified 1-to-1 education app in React Native, TypeScript, and Go. LalTal was a seed-stage startup with only 10 people in the company, and I had a blast working directly with the amazing cofounders and being their primary interface between product direction and engineering execution. We deployed some amazing solutions including:
Real-time messaging using native websockets in Go
High-scale audio streaming infrastructure
CI/CD pipelines that allowed us to iterate and rapidly test new product hypotheses based on user conversations
I ended up leaving after we struggled to find product-market-fit, but I have nothing but respect for everyone I worked with, and I'm proud of the the engineering team I helped build while there. I believe that the founders will almost certainly have amazing success in the next iteration of the product.

React NativeTypeScriptGoReal-time MessagingCI/CD

Reputation

Engineering Manager

Apr 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Provo, Utah Area

My previous company of ~3 years, Nuvi, was successfully acquired by Reputation. At Reputation, I continued to lead a team of backend Go engineers working on Reputation's social product for brands.
See my experience at Nuvi for the specific projects I worked on!

GoTeam LeadershipBackend Development

Boot.dev

Founder/Grand Magus (same thing)

May 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 11 mos · American Fork, Utah, United States

I built Boot.dev Boot.dev because I believe the smartest way to master backend development by tackling the hardest problem with e-learning: boredom. Our platform uses tactics learned from modern game design to push ambitious students toward their goal: a career in backend development. Through hands-on lessons that balance theory with practice, and an active Discord community, students are prepared to tackle technical interviews and forge a successful programming career.

GoBackend DevelopmentE-learningGame Design

Consultnet

Software Engineer

May 2019 – Sep 2019 · 4 mos · Utah

Built a reporting pipeline using Go and Google's Bigtable that ingested our app's CRUD data and transformed it into a dynamic queryable format for business intelligence tools to sit on top of
Established a flexible protocol to parse and store JSON events that were emitted from a disparate services. Events with arbitrary shapes needed to be normalized, flattened, and stored at scale

GoBigtableData TransformationData Engineering

Nuvi

Lead Software Engineer

Apr 2018 – Apr 2021 · 3 yrs · Salt Lake City, UT

Led a team of engineers responsible for the collection, enrichment, and storage of massive amounts of social media data
Responsible for services that match posts from 15+ social networks against thousands of customer-created filters at rates of ~1000/sec
Used various ML techniques to categorize posts on a variety of metrics including sentiment, vulgarity, industry, emotion, tense, etc

Social Media DataMachine LearningData StorageData Engineering

Metal fatigue solutions, inc.

Software Engineer

Oct 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · St. George, UT

Built (somewhat) embedded software in Go that powered the collection of voltage data via sensors for our electrochemical fatigue sensor hardware product
Built a web application in Python and Django that allowed geographically remote sensors to upload voltage data to our cloud based platform so that customers could see on-site sensor activity in real time

GoPythonDjangoEmbedded SoftwareEmbedded SystemsWeb Development