Lucas Willett
Director Of Engineering, Infrastructure at Sprout Social, Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Willett is a Director of Engineering focused on infrastructure and distributed systems, bringing 13 years of hands-on and leadership experience building large-scale, production-grade platforms. Currently leading Infrastructure at Sprout Social after senior engineering roles at Groupon, Braintree and DevBootCamp, he combines pragmatic software delivery with a rigorous, measurement-driven approach to reliability and performance. He cultivates high-trust, communicative teams that hold themselves to technical excellence while prioritizing sustainable practices and developer growth. Deeply experienced with true distributed systems (think Kafka, Zookeeper, Riak-style architectures), Lucas prefers solving problems where minimum cluster sizes and consensus matter. An Australian who started with small-team products in Brisbane and now mentors the next generation of engineering leaders in Portland/Chicago, he balances shipping working software with thoughtful, long-term design.
13 years of coding experience
QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
squash8
rails-i18n8
macos6
ruby-on-rails6
fuzzy-finder6
vim6
schema6
devise6
ruby6
enums6
database5
migration5
css5
javascript4
gdi4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ltw/vimfiles
Aug 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
ltw/dotfiles
Oct 2016 - May 2025
These are my dotfiles. There are many like it, but these are mine.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 8 months
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