Lane Sawyer
Senior Software Engineer at Allen Institute
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLane Sawyer is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building accessible, user-centered web applications and full-stack systems using .NET, Node.js, React, GraphQL, and AWS. He led large migrations and code-quality initiatives—driving a React-to-Astro migration and fixing 1500+ TypeScript strictness issues—to reduce production bugs and improve developer velocity. Comfortable across the stack, Lane has delivered performance wins (cutting a message-processing job from 5 hours to 10 minutes) and established repeatable release and testing practices including Playwright and Storybook. A proponent of ethical, privacy-respecting User Centered Design, he contributes to open source, obsessively follows Rust and JavaScript ecosystem trends, and balances technical curiosity with outdoor pursuits like hiking and rock climbing.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Master of Science (MS), Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS), Master of Science (MS), Management Information Systems at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (142)
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storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
positional-arguments10
conventional-commits10
javascript10
command-line-parser10
html10
compiler10
rust10
points10
angular10
webgl10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lanesawyer/outdoor-adventure-coordinator
Oct 2019 - Aug 2025
A tool for coordinating outdoor adventures
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
lanesawyer/standardnotes-rs
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
A Rust implementation of the Standard Notes Sync specification.
Contributions:40 commits, 50 PRs, 87 pushes in 2 years 2 months
rustapirocketstandardnotes
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