Jason Lane

JASON LANE

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

PROFILE

Passionate and hardworking software engineer with 15+ years of experience working in fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS industries. On a never-ending quest to expand my engineering skill set and solve problems. I have a major crush on Golang and Typescript.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Engineering Manager II at Teachable, Remote

February 2022 - June 2024

  • Introduced new technologies and frameworks that enhanced the team's productivity and product quality. (NextJS, Golang, GitHub Actions, TypeDoc, Playwright in CI/CD)
  • Successfully built and scaled engineering team, hiring and retaining top talent.
  • Delivered high-impact products or features that contributed significantly to company goals. (Upsell Funnels, Cart Abandonment, Tax Inclusive Pricing)
  • Reduced technical debt through systematic refactoring and maintenance.
  • Enhanced software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes, leading to faster delivery times.
  • Contributed to the company's technology strategy and roadmap.

Senior Software Engineer II at Teachable, Remote

April 2021 - February 2022

  • Led removal of checkout functionality from rails monolith to a microfrontend using NextJS. Improved performance of the site's checkout 5x.
  • Created and administrated Kubernetes clusters for the commerce side of the business.
  • Mentored junior and mid level engineers in topics such as Kubernetes, Microservices, Domain Driven Design, and creating GitHub Actions.
  • Cleaned up our Stripe integration allowing us to add new payment methods (ACH, Buy Now Pay Later) with ease. Increased conversion by 10%.
  • Worked to create the first Golang microservice for pricing which cross-pollinated to the rest of the engineering org to begin to deconstruct our monolith.
  • Implemented Paypal subscriptions on the checkout page.

Principal Engineer at CommonBond, New York, NY

April 2018 - April 2021

  • Lead engineer & architect of payments service project that facilitated direct ACH disbursements on behalf of our customers to their loan servicers. Reduced our transaction processing costs by 50%.
  • Led initiative to architect a 'North Star' using domain driven design methodology to help steer our engineering org, and set a clear path to deconstruct our legacy monolith into a micro-service & event based architecture.
  • Created soft credit pull chat-bot using React, AWS Lambda, Lex, and API Gateway. Transforming our form based data collection into a conversational experience. Increased conversions by 20%.
  • Created Plaid integration service using Go, Postgres, and Redis allowing all of our business lines to leverage Plaid's API to track users' student loan liabilities.
  • Project lead on revamp of our In-school Cosign application utilizing React Hooks, GraphQL, and Sass. Complete Redesign and UX overhaul resulting in 3x increase in booked loans.

Senior Software Engineer at RugsUSA.com, New York, NY

March 2012 - April 2018

  • Managed team of 5 Software Engineers.
  • Created API based middleware to integrate current ERP software to new Warehouse Management system built using Rails.
  • Created development and production build workflows gitlab ci/cd.
  • Created full end to end automation testing solution using Casperjs.
  • Created EDI system to exchange invoice, shipment, inventory, and product order documents via intermediary Rails app which converts xml documents into AJAX based JSON POST requests to vendor's API endpoints.
  • Built Rails app called utility belt which allows non technical users to conduct day to day functions which would typically require database / programming knowledge. Also ported this app to the MEEN stack.
  • Project lead on migration from physical architecture to AWS based infrastructure. Containerized current webapp using docker and created code and deployment pipeline.

DETAILS

  • 5316 Monte Vista Street
  • Los Angeles, CA 90042
  • 631-235-0102
  • jason.j.lane@gmail.com

LINKS

SKILLS

Go JavaScript React / Redux Typescript NextJS SvelteKit Node.JS / Express Postgres / MySQL Agile Methodology Systems Architecture Amazon AWS Kubernetes / Docker / Terraform CI/CD HTML5 / CSS3 / Sass GraphQL Jest / Enzyme / RTL Domain Driven Design

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Champlain College, Burlington, VT

September 2004 - June 2007

Majored in Computer Science & Digital Forensics

HOBBIES

Technology, music, movies, video games, Manchester City FC.

REFERENCES

Available upon request

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