Lance KeayFull-stack & DevOps · notebook

Lance Keay, senior full-stack developer and DevOps engineer

Contract work · web applications, CI/CD, containers and infrastructure, AI tooling

Profile

I build web applications end to end and look after the systems they run on. Most of my work sits where those two meet: the deployment pipeline that keeps breaking, the service nobody wants to own, the feature that needs a database change, a queue and a new dashboard before it can ship.

Lately that includes AI tooling. I try the tools on real work before recommending them, write down what happened, and help teams adopt the parts that hold up. The reviews on this site are that notebook in public.

I work as a contractor. I am easiest to reach by email, and I reply with a short note on whether I am a good fit before anyone spends time on a call.

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Skills

Full-stack

  • TypeScript and Node.js services
  • React front ends
  • Python for tooling and data work
  • PostgreSQL, schema design and migrations
  • REST and event-driven APIs

DevOps and platform

  • Linux, Docker and Kubernetes
  • Terraform and configuration management
  • CI/CD pipelines and release automation
  • Monitoring, logging and alerting
  • Cloud and on-prem hosting

AI tooling

  • LLM APIs and cost control
  • Self-hosted model serving
  • Coding agents in the delivery workflow
  • Retrieval over internal documents
  • Evaluating tools on real tasks

Experience summary

Full detail in the CV
  1. Recent

    Independent contractor, full-stack and DevOps

    Sample entry. Short engagements building features and fixing delivery: CI/CD rebuilds, container migrations, and bringing AI coding tools into teams with guardrails.

  2. Earlier

    Senior engineer, product team

    Sample entry. Owned services from database to front end, ran the release process and the on-call rota for the team's systems.

  3. Earlier

    Developer moving into operations

    Sample entry. Web development work that grew into looking after the servers, the build pipeline and the backups behind it.

Have a project in mind?

Send a few lines on what needs doing and roughly when. I will tell you plainly whether it suits me.

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