Lance Keay
Senior full-stack developer and DevOps engineer. I build web applications end to end, then set up the pipelines, infrastructure and monitoring that keep them running.
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How I work
I am most useful on teams that need one person who can follow a feature from the database to the deploy. I write the code, the tests and the pipeline, and I leave runbooks behind so the next person does not need me.
I review AI tools the same way I would adopt them for a client: on real work, with the costs written down. If a tool saves time only in the demo, I say so.
Skills
- Building applications
- TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, Django, PHP, PostgreSQL, Redis, REST and GraphQL APIs
- Shipping them
- GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, blue-green and canary releases
- Running them
- AWS, Linux administration, Prometheus, Grafana, log pipelines, on-call and incident reviews, backup and restore drills
- AI in production
- LLM API integration, retrieval pipelines, self-hosted model serving, cost tracking, evaluation on real tasks
Experience summary
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2021 to now
Contract full-stack and DevOps engineer
Platform rebuilds, CI/CD pipelines and cloud migrations for product teams; introducing AI features with spend limits and evaluation in place.
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2017 to 2021
Lead developer, product company
Led a small team building a customer-facing web application; moved deployment from manual releases to containers and automated pipelines.
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2012 to 2017
Full-stack developer, digital agency
Built and hosted client sites and web applications; looked after the servers they ran on.