Nearpod provides a platform for teachers to engage directly with students in an interactive learning environment. As a Core Platforms Engineer, I enabled cutting edge development across the organization by providing tools for widespread success;

Nearpod provides a platform for teachers to engage directly with students in an interactive learning environment. As a Core Platforms Engineer, I maintain a multi-environment ElasticSearch / OpenSearch cluster that integrates lesson metadata from across multiple storage platforms. I completed projects to integrate a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline for config migrations via GitLab and Kubernetes, provide global search functionality across Magento and SQL data stores, and optimized text analysis to improve performance at search time.

USAA offers high quality, competitive automobile insurance to military members and their families. As a developer operations engineer, Lana developed CI/CD (Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery) pipelines for GitLab SCM and championed state-of-the-art web development practices. She also developed integrations for an inhouse DevOps resource provisioning application which automatically created permissions and resources for developers in GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, RedHat OpenShift/Kubernetes, qTest, SonarQube, AWS, and many other platforms. Lana also lead efforts to implement SRE (Software Reliability Engineering) best practices across multiple applications, providing SLI (Service Level Indicator) metrics from the platforms that could then be used to develop formal SLOs (Service Level Objectives). As a result of this initiative, Lana oversaw availability and latency improvements across the board, using the data she exposed to inform quick and efficient iterative development to drive up developer satisfaction. Lana currently works to maintain multiple applications utilizing several different languages and technologies, including Bash, Node.js, Couchbase, Express, React, Go/Golang, Java, SpringBoot, and Oracle SQL. She founded USAA's Golang Developer Group and spearheaded initiatives to support Golang internally as an architecturally approved language.

As a software engineer focusing on developer operations, Lana assists the Delivery Automation Enablement team in developing tools to accelerate developer productivity and streamline the process of creating applications between multiple services and pipelines.

Prevalent is the leader in third-party risk management and cyber threat intelligence, helping global organizations manage and monitor the security threats and risks associated with third and fourth-party vendors.

As a software engineer, Lana worked on the Prevalent Vendor Threat Monitor team to develop and maintain SaaS third party vendor threat monitoring. Lana modernized Prevalent's data collection pipeline, introduced front-facing features such as the notification center and engagement benchmarking, and implemented proactive threat prediction algorithms for VendorThreatIQ and Potential Threat Impact.

Following her time on VTM, Lana briefly joined the Datumsec/Inspect team as a team leader. There, she organized sprints and stand-up meetings, and integrated the project with Prevalent's Scrum/Agile methodology. She is currently working to develop a new prototype application that integrates Prevalent services into a single, easy-to-use UI.