# Lucas Connors > Engineering Manager at Optro Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/lucasconnors I am passionate about creating experiences that improve the satisfaction and efficiency through which individuals carry out their digital lives. Not everyone has the same needs and I recognize that. I think understanding how people live, work, and play is the first step to making their world a better place, one line of code at a time. ## Work Experience ### Engineering Manager @ Optro Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA ### Staff Software Engineer @ Optro Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, CA ### Staff Software Engineer @ Cascade.io Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States • Led all architecture for backend, added Snowflake as an execution engine to expand customer base • Proposed and completed new operation framework, reducing skills required to extend platform • Created folder experience supporting N levels of depth, including breadcrumbs and moving subfolders ### Senior Software Engineer @ Cascade.io Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States • Wrote grammar and parser for custom DSL with syntax familiar to Excel, Tableau, and Python users • Refined data type inference enabling automatic detection of user data types and formats • Migrated authentication to Auth0 and implemented new user onboarding flow, improving engagement ### Lead Software Engineer @ Carbon Lighthouse Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | 343 Sansome Street 7th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104 • Drove initiative to decouple rigid modeling workflow into smaller modules, enabling more use cases • Built a suite of tools to support mechanical engineers' monitoring of utility bill savings ### Senior Software Engineer @ Carbon Lighthouse Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | 343 Sansome Street 7th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104 • Co-designed and co-developed schema and architecture for an anomaly detection system • Led refactor of prototype Flask service with S3 as only storage into Django project with PSQL ### Senior Software Engineer @ Numerator Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | 322 Ritch Street, San Francisco, CA • Drove effort to add Unicode support and i18n to monolith and over 10 internal dependencies • Developed libraries that simplify Hashicorp Vault and SAML integration for Django projects • Created and maintained HR-related web apps for internal use with Zappa and Lambda InfoScout joined Market Track in July 2017 and became Numerator in October 2018. ### Software Engineer @ Numerator Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | 322 Ritch Street, San Francisco, CA • Developed frameworks for A/B testing, access control, and asynchronous bulk actions • Planned and executed migration of monolithic codebase from Django 1.4 to 1.11 • Integrated CI improvements including linting, parallelization, and validation of API docs InfoScout joined Market Track in July 2017 and became Numerator in October 2018. ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA • Built features for an endpoint that receives hundreds of thousands of queries per second • Created new RPCs to support a feature launch for Google Play Games • Refactored logic in /o/oauth2/tokeninfo endpoint after identifying incorrect behaviour ### Backend Engineer @ Numerator Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | 322 Ritch Street, San Francisco, CA • Performed schema migrations on tables with over 10 million rows of data, without outages • Launched instances on AWS for Django/MySQL apps with over 70,000 daily active users InfoScout joined Market Track in July 2017 and became Numerator in October 2018. ### Full-Stack Engineer @ A Thinking Ape Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | 322 Water Street, Vancouver, BC • Developed new features on the iOS and Android versions of Kingdoms at War • Created and deployed an improved system for in-game events on a Django backend ## Education ### BCS in Honours Computer Science Co-op University of Waterloo Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lucasconnors - Website: http://www.revolutiontech.ca --- Source: https://flows.cv/lucasconnors JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lucasconnors/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22