# Lanie Hei

> distributed systems engineer @ temporal

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lanie

Distributed systems engineer focused on reliability and developer experience.

Early engineer at Temporal Technologies building Temporal Cloud and multi-region infrastructure.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer - High Availability Team @ Temporal Technologies
Jan 2025 – Present

### SDE II - High Availability Team @ Temporal Technologies
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
Part of the core team building cross-tenant replication for Temporal Cloud

### Software Engineer - Cloud Team (founding member) @ Temporal Technologies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Bellevue, Washington, United States
Started building out Temporal Cloud as Temporal employee #23.

### Software Engineer @ MJG // Frontend Masters
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
The first full-time backend engineer hired, reporting directly to the CTO. Contributed to core architecture and data systems.

- Built data pipelines processing 500K+ records per cycle with Elasticsearch.
- Developed automated reporting to deliver metrics to leadership.
- Contributed to migrating the codebase from PHP to Go using a shim pattern.
- Improved data integrity in support systems, cutting costs by ~33%.
- Prototyped with AWS tools (Cognito, Parameter Store) to guide adoption decisions.
- Collaborated with frontend engineering on building an internal support system

### Structural Engineer Intern @ LEO A DALY
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Performed red-lines for the team, and worked on solo projects such as designing a one-story steel outpost building as well as a 3 story steel and composite office building

- Gained experience in RAM connections and RAM structures
- Created reference spreadsheets for connection design

### Structural Engineer Intern @ Collins Engineers, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Assisted the team in the Minneapolis office on a MNDot project regarding underwater (scuba) inspection of the majority of bridges around the metro area

- Conducted fieldwork to inspect the structures
- Worked with both Microstation and Microsoft Word to put together the final reports for the bridges

### Civil Engineer Intern @ Westwood Professional Services
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Eden Prairie, MN
Ran analysis with Synchro, AutoCad, and other computer programs to evaluate transportation conditions for intersections, including the Mall of America

- Collaborated with an engineering team and observed methods to improve traffic conditions. 
- Developed a set of graphs for the water resources team describing the scour incurred by different conditions for the purposes of designing the foundations of a wind farm

### Private Tutor @ Self-employed private tutor
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Prior Lake, MN
Tutored students throughout my time in high school, primarily in math and science.


## Education
### Bachelors in Civil Engineering
University of Minnesota

### PSEO (Post Secondary Enrollment Option)
Normandale Community College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lanie-hei

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Last updated: 2026-04-01